...and ya win some

From the same New York Times article as the preceding post:

Seattle, Aug. 4 (AP) - Gay couples can marry under Washington law, a judge ruled Wednesday, saying there was no evidence that same-sex marriages threatened children in nontraditional families.

Ruling in favor of a challenge to the law restricting marriage to one man and one woman, the judge, William L. Downing of King County Superior Court, also wrote that barring same-sex marriages served no "state interest" and violated the constitutional right of gay couples to due process.

And as a note of consolation to the good people of Missouri - I use the word "good" deliberately - even though a constitutional amendment is clearly harder to reverse than legislation, it can be done. And just how recently would it have been that getting 30% or even 40% opposition to such a measure would have seemed an impossible dream?

Remember the story of the man hammering at the stone.