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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Not to get all political or anything, but I just had a weird reaction to the "Bush Urges Ban on Same-Sex Marriage" headline in gigantic font in the upper right corner of the Wash. Post online. For a split second, it felt as if I hadn't already seen it, and didn't already know it, and wasn't completely unsurprised by it, and I was actually utterly shocked that the President of the United States in 2004 feels justified in doing such a thing. And that the public is supposedly split 46-45% on a constitutional amendment. I felt revulsion, sadness, and anger. (And yeah, I know some people feel the same way about gay marriage, but if they can't keep their feelings about it to themselves, and think the government ought to define human relationships in a manner with which they agree and from which they benefit and too bad for those who don't, then fuck them.) It was so much easier to be jaded and unsurprised.
So the idea that NYC residents might think the city is TCOTU doesn't make me TUIMM at all.
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I agree. It is awful. I half expect people to storm from their offices into the street at the mere idea that we would amend the Constitution to institutionalize discrimination against a group of people. And then I remember that the people of Hawaii did that very thing to their state constitution in 1998, and most people outside the state didn't even realize that it had happened.
