Gay Marriage to Alfred: Your Thoughts

this may mean something different in cruising lingo than i mean it to

No, that's "preexisting condition."

i shudder to think what a "premium copay" codes as

god you're the worst

that's not a nice thing to say to God

he'll be ok

it's true that he contains multitudes

We will all be fine

Except for the uninsured

Reagan and the gays.

re Patti Davis's lamentable daddy issues and her pernicious revisionism... In 1992, she told The Advocate (6/30/1992): "They [my parents] think [homosexuality is] abnormal. I certainly don't think they feel that whatever someone's sexual preference is, is OK. They think that God made men and women to make love and any variation on that theme is in some way blasphemous."

So shadda you face, Reagangirl.

the first male gay couple slept in the White House when Ronnie was prez!

he wouldna said they could get married and divorced like he did, nevertheless.

Took you long enough, New Zealand:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8560494/Marriage-equality-bill-passes

100 yards from where I'm sitting right now:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIC-vGHCcAAWmMU.jpg

oooooooops

putting pressure on australia, which really really needs pressure right now

Patti Davis says some more things

Davis noted that Michael Reagan lived with her and her parents while gay friends and family members were present and were accepted by the former president and first lady, and thus she believes her brother knows that her father privately supported gay people.

“Michael came to live with us for a while when he was a young teenager and he knew the same people that I knew,” she explained. “And he knew the tolerance. And he knew the two aunts that babysat us. He knew they were around. They were around at holidays and it was completely accepted that they were a couple.”

Nonetheless, Ronald Reagan has been sharply criticized by LGBT and AIDS activists for bowing to religious conservatives in the Republican Party, holding back gay rights, and catastrophically failing in responding to the AIDS epidemic early on, not mentioning the word AIDS until the late 80s, well after thousands had been infected with HIV and died.

“Part of the reason I thought it was important to say that about my father,” Davis said regarding her belief that he would support gay marriage, “is that he was late in addressing the AIDS issue. I wished I’d asked him that before the Alzheimer’s, if he’d regretted that he was late in addressing the epidemic. I’m quite certain he would have said that yes he was. You know, my father’s flaw was not that he was intolerant. His flaw was that he trusted the people around him. And I’m not excusing him. I’m just saying this as a fact. He trusted people around him to tell him what was going on in the country that he needed to address. There were people around him that did not want him to deal with any issue that had to deal with gay people.”

ICYMI: Rhode Island Senate passes marriage equality bill.

the RI House easily passed an earlier version of the bill a couple months ago iirc, and the measure has the support of gov chafee so it's pretty much a done deal afaict, marriages can start happening on aug 1st

of note: all of the republican state senators voted in favor. all 5 of them.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/206413191.html
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/05/07/minn-senate-committee-to-review-gay-marriage-bill/

MN House leaders think the votes are in to pass marriage equality bill. Local pundits insist House was the higher hurdle, and MN Senate vote could come shortly.

I can see our marriage rising in the Midwest like the sun.

:)

I will get the Dayton boys to cater our affairs.

Roxor.

DE votes tomorrow

I'd be fine with MN turning it into a dirty dozen.

I will get the Dayton boys to cater our affairs.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:26 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh did you win at electronic pull tabs?

I just know a few things.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything.

Delaware's in:

http://www.delawareonline.com/viewart/20130507/NEWS02/130507024/Gay-marriage-Delaware-become-legal-July-1

My pool keeps expanding.

All the bankers you could want!

My fears/hopes for some dramatically scandalous, last-minute backstabbing in the MN chambers this Thursday are apparently unfounded.

http://www.startribune.com/local/206486551.html

House Speaker Paul Thissen, of Minneapolis, said that the 73-member Democratic majority he leads will produce at least the 68 votes needed to pass the bill. Senate leaders are also confident of passage, and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has promised to sign the bill, which would allow gay couples to marry as of Aug. 1.

...

No House Republicans have committed to vote for the bill. Thissen said while their votes are not needed, they would be appreciated.

...

Richard Carlbom, who heads Minnesotans United, a group that campaigned against last fall's amendment and has subsequently pushed the gay marriage bill through the legislative process, said the group has been conservative in its vote counting, and that commitments from legislators have been double- and triple-checked.

And boom:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/206794041.html

Cherry on top:

https://twitter.com/RuPaulsDragRace/status/332590842088923136

RuPaul's Drag Race ‏@RuPaulsDragRace
#Minnesota the House down #MarriageEquality

Alfred, will you marry me?

I'd love you even if turned out you didn't like marriage at all!

Glory, hallelujah.

Bars and punch in the fellowship hall after the ceremony.

I've been holding the assumption we can only gay marry Alfred once it's legalized in Florida.

What if I just invited Charlie Crist up here to the MN nuptials instead?

really want it to be all 50 soon so the gays can move on to important shit

(j/k... as if)

Our own Eric H. is on the scene:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/971502_10151447479257358_298972064_n.jpg

I'm particularly pleased for the friend and ex-neighbour I once babysat (starting when she was two months old), who is now a lawyer in Minneapolis. She married her girlfriend in Massachusetts last fall and has been very active in lobbying for gay marriage in Minnesota, along with her very politically mixed family.

In other news, Michele Bachmann is threatening to LEAVE MINNESOTA if/when this thing passes. LOOOOOOOOL.

That means she has to resign from Congress, yes? Bring it.

omg win/win

If it means getting her out of Congress, I'll marry Bachmann.

marry her husband instead, that will really drive her crazy

Oops, enthusiastic Facebook sharers in NOT RECOGNISING SATIRE (half a dozen of my ex-classmates and their sibs are LGBT activists so I just got spammed repeatedly). But still, someone should hide in her bushes* and pretend to be God, saying 'thou shalt go forth from this accursed place in haste, lest My door smite thine arse'.

*I added the bushes for you, Dan. Do your worst.