Meanwhile, Oklahoma (my state) passes the Covenant Marriage Bill.
One day...one day equal rights will be given to all people, equally.
Abi's jacket looks like it came straight out of "The Matrix" wardrobe trailer. Abi you're not making PNH and TNH bike everywhere are you?
That is an amazing piece of journalism. I couldn't handle reading something like that daily...no.
Fragano, fear not, there are many, many ways of defacing the Web...or 'improving' it.
I suppose it is appropriate that I'll be in early American Literature class during the bulk of the inauguration ceremony. Knowing my liberal lit department I wouldn't be shocked if we watched the ceremony in lieu of our reading assignments...
Two words: 1) Bacon, and 2) Kevin.
Mystery managed.
A note on the Arkansas Ban on Gay Couple Adoption: the measure passed bans adoption by ANY unmarried "sexual partners" :
This measure would prohibit unmarried "sexual partner[s]" from adopting children or from serving as foster parents. The measure specifies that the prohibition applies to both opposite-sex as well as same-sex couples.
I just went through this here in Oklahoma. Myself and fiance (we're a straight couple) filed for adoption as co-applicants (mother and father). We were denied on the basis of OK state law that states that co-applicants MUST be married to file jointly.
So I re-filed as sole applicant with Liz as "adult, over the age of 18, cohabitation."
She has to go through the same training, same background checks, and I can appoint her as legal guardian with the same rights as if she was going to be the legal mother. The only difference? Tax season.
Over 100,000 kids waiting to be adopted --- the majority of which are minority, most of the older children will 'age-out' in the system. And they want to limit an already stagnant applicant pool?
There was a big win tonight.
There were a lot of big losses with Prop 8, Arkansas' disgusting insertion of cleverly worded homophobic amendment, Florida Amendment 2, and Nebraska's 424---banning Affirmative Action.
Unreal.
Somebody spiked my Obama Kool-Aid. I'll have some more thanks!
Fragano @ above: the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 - Virginia SB 219.
Overturned by U.S. Supreme Court in 1967.
1967
Oh man, we are just getting started on true freedom of equality...
I had called the cable company to come troubleshoot the connection a few months ago. The cable guy walked into the house, took a deep breath and said, "Man, I smell leather." I showed him my office/studio room --- I have three saddles and a mess of leather hides and a box-full of scraps. He said it reminded him of his father...his father used to make saddles. When he was done troubleshooting the cable box he asked if he could sit in my office for a few minutes. "Absolutely..."
We can haz genetic driver for narcolepsy nao.
OKTHX!
My sympathies to all who knew him as well.
As a perfectly normal functioning adult that was raised in a perfectly normal functioning household I personally feel discriminated against by this holiday.
I'm therefore giving the "American" response...I'll be suing Abi...
O.o
...and we'll post this in the correct ML forum now:
"Wherever, therefore, it has been established that it is shameful to be involved in sexual relationships with men, this is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice in the part of the governed." - Plato
Congratulations to the groom and ...groom! ;)
...and that totally ended up on the wrong damn forum.
That's what I get for having Multiple MakingLights.
"Wherever, therefore, it has been established that it is shameful to be involved in sexual relationships with men, this is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice in the part of the governed." - Plato
Congratulations to the groom and ...groom! ;)
*breaks out the protest signs*
Free Teresa! Free Teresa! Free Teresa!
I am glad to hear that Teresa is mostly bored. Swift recovery please.
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