So, we were having dinner with friends last night who were telling us how annoying it was that people were now constantly asking them, "So, when are you two going to get married?" I smiled at them as I raised a glass of wine to my lips and said, "Are you having fun, yet?"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=96924806
Jokes aside, I'm feeling pretty good about being American these days! Now, if we can get everyone *ahem, cough, cough, California, cough* to follow this example...
Yay CT!
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I watched Bill Maher's last show of the season, on which Ashton Kutcher appeared. I was entirely prepared to find him utterly worfless and completely ignorable, but to my considerable surprise he made several good points, one of which was that states' denial of marriage to same-sex couples violates the separation of church and state.
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"Seperation of Chruch and State" has always ever gone only so far. Look back on Bush's presidency; how many times has he said "God wants this...", or "...what's right in the eyes of God."? Heck, European settlers kept siezing land from the Indians on the basis of "Manifest Destiny" - it was God's will that white people settled this country and governed it. Then there is the matter of what's clearly written on our money; In God We Trust.
I think people's religious ideas have to change before politics will.
I think people's religious ideas have to change before politics will.
In defense of my adopted state:
When this matter first came before the voters in 2004, it passed 62% to 37%. This time it was 52% to 48%—a big change in support of same-sex marriage in only 4 years. This isn't over yet. People are marching in Los Angeles and San Francisco. This will be overturned. California won't disappoint.
Helen
When this matter first came before the voters in 2004, it passed 62% to 37%. This time it was 52% to 48%—a big change in support of same-sex marriage in only 4 years. This isn't over yet. People are marching in Los Angeles and San Francisco. This will be overturned. California won't disappoint.
Helen