This week's gay marriage update, and it ain't pretty:

[captainsblog]

* On two separate occasions this week, defenders of pending gay-marriage bans have sought refuge with those Activist Judges on the nation's highest court (the majority of whom were appointed by Dubya, his daddy, or his daddy's former boss) to prevent the names or likenesses of these bigots from being revealed to the nation. All of which is completely consistent with their First Amendment rights to petition the government for redress of grievances as long as nobody gets to know who they are- just as it was in the most famous example of it in our history:



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* Speaking of the Bushmen: Old 43's Solicitor General (the gummint's chief lawyer arguing cases to that selfsame Supreme Court during our eight years of occupation by Stupidity) came out in this week's Newsweek, arguing that gay marriage is something a true conservative should be supporting, not opposing, on grounds of freedom, liberty and restraint from government interference in private matters. Naturally, the loyal opposition, on respected and colloquial sites like Newsbusters, has thrown him under the gay-bashing bus. They claim that, by his reasoning, conservatives would be forced to support incestuous marriages and beastial marriages and other forms of horrors- the same arguments being advanced by the Prop 8 supporters in the federal trial which are so ridiculous, they don't want you to see them on Youtube.

* Finally, for those who believe so strongly in the sanctity of traditional marriage, statistics (or as they say in Indiana, sadistics) are out, and guess which states have shown the biggest drops in their divorce rates between 2003 and 2008? Maine and Massachusetts are two of the top three, both of which have supported the rights of consenting adults to marry whoever they want.  At the bottom of the list, bucking the national trend in which divorce rates have gone down in the past five years? A bunch of states which enacted consitutional amendments BANNING gay marriage. And at the bottom of the bottom, with the highest increase in divorce rates, is the first of the 50 states to enact such a bigoted amendment.

You don't know which one that is? "Well, I'll have to get right back to you on that, you betcha!" She can see Divorce Court from her house!

Comments

[platypus]

I would not exactly be surprised if the noisiest, nosiest finger-pointers were propelled by their own insecurity.

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Have you read about the petition here by the Lib Dems calling for legalisation and recognition of same-sex partnerships across the EU?

http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/marriagewithoutborders

If I weren't an alien, I would so vote for these guys. I remember lisetning to one of their spokesmen a few years ago, sort of half-paying attention to an interview on the Beeb, when he was asked about marriage laws, and pointing out that he had ben married twice. The person (I can't remember who it was, irritatingly) said that he had indeed been married twice; his first wife had died and he was then remarried. He then said that marriage had been the right choice for him, but that it might not be for other people, who had just as much right to their choices as he did to his. I remember just sort of staring at the screen, dumbfounded at a politician who a: made sense and b: was expressing a view I'd held for most of my life (i.e., my choices are right for me, not necessarily right for others).