Will Judge Tauro's decision be appealed? Everyone expects it to, just as we presume Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling on Prop 8 - which we anticipate any day now - to be as well. The right-wingers at NOM even went so far as to pray "with God's help" there will be five U.S. Supreme Court justices to uphold Prop 8, and their press release over the DOMA ruling yesterday was equally hysterical. Expect this to be unresolved for years.

But with DOMA thrown out on "rational basis" grounds in a federal court, it should give hope to gay marriage advocates here in California that Prop 8 will suffer a similar fate.