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Originally posted by atticus
I think a bunch of people should go to Canada to do this anyway. If we've got a trade deficit in the bridal industry, maybe there'll be a lobbying effort by all the wedding planners.
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I think a bunch of people should go to Canada and do this because, regardless of an individual state's legal recognition of the same, the gay couples will then be able, with an entirely straight face and total social legitimacy, to introduce themselves socially, and demand equal social if not legal treatment, as a married couple. And it appears that a general social acceptance needs to happen here first, since there isn't the will to implement the change from the top down.
I'm of mixed feelings about that. On the one hand it is sort of a shame that, although the courts and politicians were willing to do (even some constitutionally dubious) things to force people to do right with respect to race and, sort of, gender, they don't seem to be up to forcing the issue with sexual orientation. Then again, maybe it's not so bad if this issue will be resolved more slowly and gradually (and frustratingly for the discriminated against) but with less long-lasting social and cultural damage than the remedies for race & gender discrimination have caused if the change in policy is permitted to bubble up from the bottom. Then again (again), no one should have to wait to be accorded their basic human rights and to be protected from the damage biggoted assholes like that fucker Frist can do to them.
FWIW, I think it is very unlikely that a constitutional amendment will get the votes - a lot of people remain biggoted assholes, but I firmly believe it is not enough to pull that off. I, for one, will be a one-issue voter on this matter.
Then again, I am constantly being saddened by the ability of people to disappoint my belief in the inherent fairness and sense of justice of the common man. Maybe 3/4 of the states, and 2/3 of the jugheads we elected to Congress, really do want to knowingly continue to discriminate and effectively endorse hatred of members of their own society, even though the heroism of the Civil Rights movement is so fresh in our collective national mind that it is impossible that they not be tipped off that they are on the "fucking biggoted asshole hate-monger [I would include "Nazi" but I'd automatically lose the point]" side of this one.
Then again (again), people of that fucking fuck-head Frist's generation will be dead soon, and people of my generation seem not to have their heads so much up their asses on this matter. And if that is how long we must wait to see some basic human rights protections in this area, then, when it comes, I invite all of my like-minded compatriots to joint me for a Girl-Drink and Conga Line Party on the fucker's grave. We'll get drunk, have promiscuous same-sex necking, and pee on his fucking rotting biggoted corpse so we can drink and celebrate some more.
BR(hmm, tell us how you really feel, BRC)C
