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moominmollyMore pictures of the SF wedding madness keep being added here. I still can't believe I'm watching this happen.
Will this have any effect on proceedings in MA, now that we look all reserved and stodgy by comparison? Will it help or hurt the cause? It's all fascinating, and I have absolutely no idea.
Will this have any effect on proceedings in MA, now that we look all reserved and stodgy by comparison? Will it help or hurt the cause? It's all fascinating, and I have absolutely no idea.
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-17 01:38 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-17 03:10 pm (UTC)Judge Moore
Date: 2004-02-17 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: Judge Moore
Date: 2004-02-17 10:38 pm (UTC)Irrational thinking has become prevalent all around America. We're good at it, after all. When we get hung up on something, it's hard to explain to us not to go it. Manifest destiny was mostly a bad idea, but we'd gotten so good at killing the natives and sticking falgs into terrain that we didn't want to hear any arguments. The minute we filled in the turf, we hit the surf and grabbed more Spanish-speaking turf. Then we went to Moon, mostly because it was also called Luna which sounds Spanish and we figured it's another Spanish-speaking place we could trick into partial sovereignty. Oh wait...
The answer is clear: we're jealous of the Spanish language. That, or we're just born fools.
Anyway, I think the SF marriages and the coming Mass marraiges (and they are coming) are manifestations of a bubbling awakening. The swing to the right may finally be falling apart! Whoooooooooo! They yelled at the hippies for so long about settling down and once they did... oops, they settled down without Bibles.
I'm so tired of people not thinking out their consequences. Twenty-five years of complaints about moral turpitude may have been a smokescreen.
However, there are plenty more fights ahead. There are too many Americans in prison for being salesmen. They just happened to sell drugs. As a salescritter, I want to see that end.
We also need to see that yelling at smokers is condescending, too. More emergent thinking... it's like the Sixtied but without the bad hygiene!
-take a shower and shave before you picket the rednecks, Ps/d
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Date: 2004-02-18 04:37 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-18 09:00 am (UTC)one might also point out that if the law was obviously unconstitutional, those affected by it might have asked for an injunction against it's enforcement. i don't think that happened. (but i haven't followed the issue that closely.)
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Date: 2004-02-18 04:46 pm (UTC)Civil Unions were something that a majority of Americans were willing to see happen, and I suspect they would have turned into marriages in a few years.
Events in MA galvanized anti-gay forces, and they're pushing a Constitutional Amendment that would elminate the possibility of civil unions as well as marriages. From the poll data I've seen, it's favored by close to 2/3rds of voters. Given the way DOMA went (where you had Bill Clinton sermonizing about the sanctity of family values), and those numbers, I could see that amendment going through. (It'd be the dumbest amendment since the Volstead Act, but that's beside the point.)
I think this was a well-intentioned idea that will backfire, especially since it's happening in an election year, and it gives the Republicans something that they can rally their base on without too much poltical pain.
I wish it wasn't that way, but wishing don't make it so.