Cal­i­for­nia Everybody’s got their knick­ers in a twist over the Cal­i­for­nia Supreme Court’s recent rul­ing that Prop 22 (a pop­u­lar ini­tia­tive to enact a statu­tory ban on same-​​​​sex mar­riages) was uncon­sti­tu­tional under the Cal­i­for­nia State Constitution’s guar­an­tee of equal pro­tec­tion. The court declined to recon­sider, and also declined to issue a stay of its order direct­ing state offi­cials to stop deny­ing mar­riage licenses to oth­er­wise eli­gi­ble same-​​​​sex cou­ples. Appar­ently, same-​​​​sex cou­ples started get­ting mar­ried a few days ago. My posi­tion on gay mar­riage is that equal pro­tec­tion does not, in this case, jus­tify expand­ing the wel­fare state, because all (or very nearly all, more on [ . . . ]

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