Don we now our gay apparel

[beautifulduckweed]

Sigh of relief when I saw this headline: "Senate blocks same-sex marriage ban." I knew the probability of this amendment actually passing was pretty damn small, but it would've been worrying indeed if it had received the 60 votes needed to move the amendment along.

(I am depressed, however, at how state constitutions are successfully being amended one at a time.)

This quote from Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, made me snort-laugh: "We're making progress, and we're not going to stop until marriage between a man and a woman is protected."

Right. Without this amendment, rampaging hordes of fags and dykes are going to storm churches and county offices across the country and put straight couples in headlocks until the men agree to take it up the ass, the women agree to wear only Birkenstocks and flannel from here on out, and everybody swears to memorize every Sondheim musical and Indigo Girls album ever produced. And needless to say, all straight couples will be gay-married by lottery. It'll be chaos, I tell you. CHAOS.

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[paraleipsis.livejournal.com]

CHAOS, ANARCHY, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER

[borktron.livejournal.com]

I want to be gay-married by lottery. It would be a gas.

I think we all saw this one coming

[theotherjay.livejournal.com]

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[mustela.livejournal.com]

I think your mom saw me coming last night.


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but she ran the other way.

You sicko. How dare you think that.

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[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

That's funny, because when your mom sees me coming, she comes, too.

OH SNAP.

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[theotherjay.livejournal.com]

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[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

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[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Tangent: Are you working today?

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[theotherjay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I have all this time for posting silly pictures on teh int4rnets =P

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[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Then, in that case:



Hey, would you like a ride home tonight? I'm going to make dinner, and I'll be more than happy to share it. And you can "help" me "study" as we "eat."

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[theotherjay.livejournal.com]

Well, we just had a big screwup on an order here, so it looks like we have about 18 sandwiches to eat this evening. My dinner may be set, though you'd be welcome to join me =P

(No, seriously, I don't know what I'm doing. Check back in a bit?)

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

You can't be gay-married by lottery, you bigamist-wannabe! I WILL TAKE YOU TO COURT AND SUE YOU AND YOUR PRETTY PRETTY CATAMITE (WHO'S PRETTIER THAN ME) FOR ALL YOU HAVE YOU TURDBURGLING CHOCOLATE STARFISH-MUNCHING HERSHEY TUNNEL-LOVING ASS-SPELUNKER.

(After we divorce, I won't try to sue, just stalk you and your gay lover while making incessant theremin noises every time you hold hands.)

[majormojo.livejournal.com]

Hey, check this out! I was reading all about it in the papers yesterday, and voila, it's happening in America as well! Howard is probably thinking that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/Gay-couples-to-lose-right-to-say-I-do/2006/06/06/1149359735351.html

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Aaargh. The stupid, it burnsssss, precious.

I really, really don't get what people are so afraid of. Honestly. I mean, I can sort of appreciate it in an abstract sense, but I honestly don't get why people are so worked up over gay marriage. I keep thinking that their common sense should allow them to see that allowing homosexuals to marry and share equal rights shouldn't in any way threaten them or their rights, even if they don't care for gay people, but perhaps I am giving too much credit to these people.

It's also charming how people will deny that exactly the same sort of thing happened with miscegenation laws, and that their homophobic attitudes parallel racist views rather neatly.

Anyway, must go punch some crotches, or something. ARGH.

[majormojo.livejournal.com]

They are concerned over the existence of our future generation, of course. If we sanction gay marriages, this means, a lot of people will be encouraged to be gay. Which means, there are less men and women to get married and reproduce (nevermind the world is overpopulated anyway).

What's charming is that here in Down Under, the movement was for civil union, not marriage per se. I gather that's a compromise, asking for legal recognition and acknowledgement of your partner in a wholly secular sort of way, without getting on the "religious/spiritual" definition of marriage. And if it's in a wholly secular sort of way, why should the gender of your partner matter?

I may be wrong. Just an opinion of a biologist anyway... who knows nothing about the evils of the world!