California Supreme Court says "I do" to gay marriage

Valentine's Day in May? It sure seems like it, or at least a flashback to Valentine's Day 2004.

It's been four years since Mayor Gavin Newsom told the San Francisco city clerk to issue marriage licenses to gay couples—and the California Supreme Court stopped the practice a month later. It's been four years during which the issue bounced around the California courts.

As of today, gay marriage is back on again in California. It may not last, it may go to state referendum and be banned yet again. And I'll again be struggling to explain to my kids why people can't marry whoever they want to marry.

But meanwhile, the local news is going to once again be one of my favorite shows; I'll even let my kids watch, because instead of showing police tape around the site of the latest gang violence, bemoaning California's struggling school system, or profiling another family losing their house in the mortgage crisis, the news is going to be showing happy couples, many with kids in tow, lining up to get married. And what could be better family viewing than that?

Original Silicon Valley Moms Blog post. Tekla Nee writes about life with her husband, three kids, and two cats in books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and on scraps of paper all over her house.