Interesting to note, that Hallmark is releasing four ‘same sex marriage‘ greeting cards this summer, after the Supreme Court Ruling in California. However, the company claims it is due to Economic Reasons, not any political pressure. I suppose that means from the GLBT Community.

Hallmark started offering “coming out” cards last year, and the four designs of same-sex marriage cards are being gradually released this summer and will be widely available by next year. No sales figures were available yet. (source - ABC News)

What I find interesting, is that in releasing these cards, they also add a disclaimer, saying that it is suitable for many different relationships, not just Marriage. In short they don’t bang you over the head that it is a marriage or wedding card. I suppose that is to avoid the hate mongering from the Religious Right, or to maybe enter the market under the radar of the Bigots out there.

Still some of the figures are interesting. Such as that they figure about 120,000 couples will marry in the next three years, in California. Yet despite that, there is still come companies waiting till after November, in case the people of California follow the rantings of the Loon Fringe, and once more try to define marriage as being between a man & woman only.

One thing about the so called Religious Right, they don’t give up, but hey, neither do we. And you know, what is right may not always happen, but IT ALWAYS DOES EVENTUALLY. What is sad, that in this time and day, there are still those who HATE, simply because they can.

That is just one of the headlines today, about the recent California Supreme Court Ruling.

Yet if you read the stories on this, it is a case about a couple of Fertility Doctors, who refused to help inseminate a Lesbian, based on their religious beliefs. And yet this isn’t a cut and dried case of discrimination either. It isn’t like the health of the Lesbian was at risk, but that it was a way for her to conceive a child.

Justice Joyce Kennard wrote in the ruling that two Christian fertility doctors who refused to artificially inseminate a lesbian have neither a free speech right nor a religious exemption from the state’s law, which “imposes on business establishments certain antidiscrimination obligations.”

In the lawsuit that led to the ruling, Guadalupe Benitez, 36, of Oceanside said that the doctors treated her with fertility drugs and instructed her how to inseminate herself at home but told her their beliefs prevented them from inseminating her. One of the doctors referred her to another fertility specialist without moral objections and Benitez has since given birth to three children. (source - Fox News)

What is interesting is that many on hearing the ruling think it is a plus for Gay Rights. I am going to go on a limb and wonder if that is true. I mean, it isn’t like these Doctors were trying to deny emergency health care, and they did offer to provide names of Doctors who had no objection to doing the process. So why the lawsuit?

I mean, if a lady walks into a Doctor’s office, and wants an abortion, is he/she required to perform it?

While a woman has that right, to get an abortion, not every Doctor is comfortable with performing that procedure. They base it on religious belief, as they should. So why can those Doctors get away with refusing, but these one’s didn’t? Is it a double standard, or is it that radically different? While it is about the only way a Lesbian can get pregnant, without having to be with a man, is it something that should fall under this type of ruling?

Many hail this as a victory for Gay Rights, but I am not convinced it was one. I think the backlash could come back on other issues, such as same sex marriage. Again, we are blurring the lines between civil and religious freedoms. The more blurred they become, the more we will suffer. Least in marriage we aren’t impuning on anyone’s beliefs, or church. By forcing people to perform a service, that is against their core belief, aren’t we risking a whole lot more?

There were options open, so why the lawsuit? I mean it isn’t like there weren’t other Doctors willing to help inseminate this Lesbian, so again, I have to wonder, WHY?