There is a word to describe what's happening in Sin FRancisco in this matter:
ANARCHY!
And the mayor is an anarchist who should immediately be recalled.
I would disagree. These "people" are in the final stages of a very well crafted attempt to do what just happened in MA. The next step will be for one of the married "couples" to be denied some sort of "benefit" (perceived or actual), e.g. "Married Filing Jointly" on the old Form 1040, or, more likely, some sort of Employer Supplied benefit.
The lawsuit follows, and this abomination will be codified into law in what is becoming a disgustingly familiar fashion.
Got to give them credit, and I've said it before, they know what the game is and what they are playing for.
It's time to bring back the old practice of "shunning." I've been practicing it for years. In CA it can get awfully lonely.
There is a word to describe what's happening in Sin FRancisco in this matter:
ANARCHY!
And the mayor is an anarchist who should immediately be recalled.
No, it's not anarchy, nor is it "civil disobedience", which is the term they initially applied to their action.
Anarchy is the absence of government, every man for himself. A government official, issuing licenses is anathema to the concept of "anarchy". ("Hi, I'd like to sign up to be an anarchist. Where can I find the rulebook, and how much will the license cost me?")
It's not "civil disobedience" either, but for different reasons. Civil disobedience is by definition the populace rebelling against the state. When you have one unit of government squaring off against another unit of government, it's not "civil disobedience" by any stretch of the language.
So if it's not "anarchy", and it's not "civil disobedience", then what is it?
It's civil war of course.
How it ends up will determine not so much what kind of future we have as a nation, but whether we've got much of a future at all. Rome is falling, version 2.0.
Please note that I am not engaging in either hyperbole or a term of art when I used the expression "civil war" to describe their actions. I was being as clinical and accurate as possible. One unit of government has decided to break away from the rest of the country, and operate in complete defiance to the rule of law, to which it is officially subject.
San Francisco has in a very real way decided to secede from the USA. How the USA responds to this act of civil war will determine our future.
I will not be surprised, though, if the response boils down to surrender.