Happy Marriage Equality Day!

I feel this piece by Andres Sullivan, starts to explain why the hate groups have lost now and will continue to loose until history consigns them to the side note that they are.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/06/26/it-is-accomplished/

To steal and paraphrase from Mandela it will be a long slow walk to freedom, but it will happen

My home state of New Hampshire was the first state to legalize gay marriage by a law passed by the legislature rather than a court decision, and it was the result of the Iraq War. Huh? you say. Well, revulsion against the Iraq War led to a Democratic landslide in 2006, and Democrats then had large majorities in both houses of the legislature. So civil unions went through the legislature fairly easily in 2007, and on 1 January 2008, just after midnight, my daughter and her partner were married on the grounds of the State Capitol along with a few dozen other couples. (Civil Unions were automatically upgraded to marriages by the next legislature.) In general, when one progressive cause wins, others benefit.
In 2010 the Republicans won in a landslide (but did not win the governorship) and could have repealed gay marriage in spite of a governor’s veto, but New Hampshire is a quirky state with a long tradition of libertarianism — not the Ron Paul or Ayn Rand type, but of the I-run-my-life-you-run-yours kind. With the polls showing a significant majority against repeal, the legislative leaders (who were otherwise pretty extreme right-wingers) decided to let the repeal bill die in committee.

And I responded, “gosh what a horrible thought, someone passing legislation based on their religion?!”

BUUUURRRRRNNNN!!!!

@Binjabreel: I believe that the freedom to establish an intimate relationship with whatever consenting adult(s) you choose is a fundamental human right. I neither know nor care why some people choose same-sex partners — that is their choice, and neither I nor anyone else has any business interfering.

Congratulations, Americans!

@ Paradoxical Intention

You might like this story.

A couple of years back I was visiting my favourite stone circle (I’m lucky enough to live where there are lots of them). There were a couple of guys there. I just confess to being a bit put out at first. This is *my* circle; no-one ever comes here! But hey, live and let live and we got chatting and they turned out to be really lovely (also a couple).

Then a few more people turned up and then more and more. All of a sudden there were about 200 people. I then realised it was a wedding, a couple of the local witches were having a hand binding.

Now I had a dilemma, I didn’t want to intrude, but if I left it might look like I didn’t approve. Luckily the guys said that they were sure the girls wouldn’t mind so I stayed. I actually got to take part; someone was daft enough to entrust me with the job of spinning this spirit calling thing. Fortunately for all concerned I snapped the string before anyone was decapitated.

It was a lovely ceremony and what was particularly wonderful was that a rainbow came out just at the moment they exchanged vows. Now, despite my pagan sensibilities, I’m quite the rationalist, but sometimes you have to just accept things like that (also we have photographic proof!)

Penglas, our local Obby Oss, was also there, she stole my hat. There is a photograph in existence that looks like I’m about to deck her, but it was just me trying to get my hat back. I’m pretty placid and wouldn’t get into a fight about a hat; honest.

Afterwards I explained to the girls I hadn’t meant to gatecrash but they were very nice and invited me to the reception. I spent a pleasant evening keeping a wary eye on Penglas; she was still after my hat.

@Alan

The only way I can figure to describe that story is “pleasantly quaint” with a gif of a cat in a monocle.

How pleasantly quaint.

http://weknowgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/classy-cat-gif.gif

http://i.imgur.com/v6gqC1Q.jpg

Sounds like Tom is trolling? Or there’s been a misunderstanding. I’m guessing the former.

Anyway, did some request kitties?
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Here’s my kitty.

@weirwoodtreehugger

I hope so, because I have a fear of accidentally being insensitive and reinforcing a patriarchal-construct through sheer ignorance because I’m a straight white male who doesn’t fully realize his privilege in life.

Are you kidding me?

http://www.newsweek.com/following-supreme-court-decision-mississippi-may-stop-issuing-any-marriage-347740

@Grump

Well, at least straight people can see how much it sucks not to be able to get married in certain states.

Josh:

Tom was definitely trolling, and may be safely invited to fuck off with all the fucks.

There’s a well-established myth among MRAs that feminism somehow insists that no woman can ever be wrong about anything, and therefore that misogynists are being attacked simply for criticizing a woman. This is, of course, patently absurd but the poor dears believe it quite fervently. Thus, anytime feminists and feminist allies say anything that might be seen as critical of a woman, these sad, deluded souls will leap in and act as if they’ve scored a touchdown-level “Gotcha”.

The proper reaction is to simply stare at them as if they’re a poorly potty-trained three-year-old who is holding up a handful of his own dooky, fresh from his drawers, and expecting to be praised for it.