Let's hear it for Judge Reinhardt!

"Wah."

Wait, for real? Yup, the three judge panel ruled that Judge Vaughn Walker was totally correct in striking down Prop 8! Of course one judge, N. Randy Smith, dissented because somebody has to be the fifth dentist, but all in all it's nice to see the good guys win...even if it's not really over. Why isn't it over? Well, Prop 8 fans are well funded, sanctimonious and didn't get their way. Check out this from Focus on the Family's Jim Daly:

"It's about the pursuit of their rights, and their dreams and their desires. Their arguments are selfish, not selfless oriented."

-Jim Daly on why it's selfish to want

equal treatment under the law.

In the majority opinion Judge Stephen Reinhardt (!) wrote: 'Proposition 8 serves no purpose and has no effect other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples..." Hell yes, Judge, hell yes. And I loved you in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Above: Judge Reinhardt in official 9th Circuit Judicial Robes.*

*That's Judge Reinhardt, right?