So we must be irrational?

"It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners."

Thus spake San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer today (Monday), in his infinite wisdom overturning history, culture and tradition in striking down California's ban on gay marriage.

Really, NO rational purpose? In effect he has ruled that any pre-existing norm or purpose is irrational.

The judge wrote that the state's historical definition of marriage, by itself, cannot justify the denial of equal protection for gays and lesbians.

"The state's protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional," Kramer wrote.

Where did this guy go to law school? Did he take any history courses? When California adopted its constitution it did not arbitrarily deny all those pre-existing gay and lesbian marriages. There weren't any to deny. The state, founded by Christians from a society built by Spanish and Mexican Christians, enshrined in its constitution the strictures of a moral code that has governed Christian civilization for millenia. Jews and Muslims share the concept of marriage limited to one man, one woman. Most other faiths do as well.

No, what Judge Kramer has done --- and let us pray that the California Supreme Court will undo it -- is to insist that morality and the law must divorce. Any code that purports to be God-derived obviously will not pass constitutional muster in this man's courtroom.

What is missing in this report is that God is real, He is paying attention, and He will have the last Word on the matter. Sooner, we fear, than later.