Happy Marriage Equality Day!

I am glad it is now legal in more states than just New York.

ok, watch me screw up the code!

Break out the party poppers for the legalisation, and bring out the popcorn to watch the right wingers work themselves into a futile furore. Bwahahaha.

Okay, so here’s the link to the governor of Texas’ memo directing the various state agencies how to handle this:

http://gov.texas.gov/files/press-office/State_AgencyHeads_SCOTUS_Rulin_06262015.pdf

Now, there’s a lot of the usual blather, but the lynchpin quote is here:

With these obligations in mind, I expect all agencies under my direction to prioritize compliance with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Article I of the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act. All state agency heads should ensure that no one acting on behalf of their agency takes any adverse action against any person, as defined in Chapter 311 of the Texas Government Code, on account of the person’s act or refusal to act that is substantially motivated by sincere religious belief. This order applies to any agency decision, including but not limited to granting or denying benefits, managing agency employees, entering or enforcing agency contracts, licensing and permitting decisions, or enforcing state laws and regulations.

For all his hyperbole, what this boils down to is a statement that a clerk who, for instance, refuses to sign a marriage license for a same-sex couple cannot be fired for that refusal. It does not actually even try to claim that the state does not have to provide that license. So, if you run a county courthouse, and the clerk says he won’t sign a marriage license for Adam and Steve, you just have to do it yourself.

I wonder how long it will be before the state budget takes a hit from making certain that there’s always a non-bigot on staff at every government office.

Oh, and for an extra bonus…

I wonder how long it will be before people claim to have converted to Judaism so they don’t have to work a Saturday shift. Prison guards, cops, virtually anyone who works for the government could get a guaranteed weekend day off that way, according to the memo he’s issued.

Fundie homophobes: Bigoted and Quixotic.

Sooo. My laptop just suffered a full HDD failure that took an hour to jerry-rig back together, meaning a $3000 purchase I can’t afford is in my immediate future… But I’m so fucking elated at finally being considered human in at least one of my two home countries that I don’t care about the compsplosion at all. Glitter > Money stress.

I took a midnight walk in the bush a few hours ago to try and air out my head. It’s amazing just how much brighter and more beautiful everything looked.

=]

I should stop babbling like I’m high (I’m actually not, for once =P) and join in with the happy pictures.

Chair dancing here in the Deep South. Roy Moore can try to git us but it ain’t gonna work!

@GiJoel

Hey, we’re all rooting for ya.

And once we get Australia, we’ll get THE WORLD!

MWHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

spacelawn:

But really. While this is great it is also pretty fucked up to read about how one of the biggest countries in the world makes gay marriage legal in 2015. 2015! We’re in the future but this has only gotten around to happen now!?

Proper future too!
We have so many technologies from sci fi already and so very much more less than a decade away – yet culturally we’re decades from acceptance. People still believe nonsense lies of hate, based on random arbitrary fear of otherness.

I heard there’s a prototype hoverboard somewhere out there,

I texted my friend when I heard the news and she texts me back “Good, now that you can put a ring on it, you can start dating.” I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what my mom would say too if I was out.