2009-05-11 15:21 | Marriage.

I had a mildly longer post typed out on this topic, but it had so many loose threads that would have needed addressing (privilege, disclaimers, &c) that blah.

Anyways.  The short, short version*.

My boyfriend and I briefly re-nattered about marriage yesterday.  We confirmed that yeah, neither of us are particularly interested in getting married.  Pragmatism may change our minds (finances, health stuff, his family), but yeah, not so much.  For much the same reasons, even – a general dislike for societal/patriarchal expectations.

Pleased cat is pleased.

* Entertainingly, a quote from Spaceballs, during the wedding scene.

2009-04-03 09:10 | Holy crap, Iowa!

At Pandagon: Iowa Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality

I link there, rather than directly to a news site, because along with the news you get a nice smattering of Freeper wailing.  Yay, lamentations!

I had no clue Iowa had this on the table.  My boyfriend is from Iowa, so he is v. pleased as well.

Woo!  Who's next?

2008-10-30 10:23 | More on Prop. 8, and some on Florida's Amendment 2 and Arizona's Prop. 108.

John Scalzi has two terrific posts up about California's Proposition 8:

1) What? Prop 8 Threatens Existing Marriages? You Don't Say:

This is why every single potential supporter of Proposition 8 should be looked square in the eye and asked if they are truly and seriously ready to say that that they personally are prepared to destroy already existing, already legal marriages — if they are truly and seriously ready to say that they know better than the people in a marriage whether that marriage should be allowed to exist — if they are truly and seriously ready to say to two married people, "you two don't deserve to be married, and I intend to kill your marriage now."

2) Something Worth Noting, Re: People Who Vote For Prop 8:

I think there are good, decent, kind and loving people who will vote for a proposition that is fundamentally bigoted and wrong and hurtful, and that they will do it out of the best of intentions, motivated by a belief in a particular religion, or fear of a changing world, or a perceived conflict in moral system, or because they want to plant a flag about the encroaching power of governments, some combination of any or all of the above, or for some other reason entirely.

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Florida and Arizona have similar items.

* Florida's Amendment 2 will amend the Florida Constitution to add: "Inasmuch as a marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."

* Arizona's Proposition 102 "will amend the Arizona Constitution by adding the following article related to marriage: "Marriage – Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.""

The Florida one may be getting less press because they aren't actively ending marriages, and the Arizona one might be because the proposition will only strengthen what's already there, so I hear.

Still.  If you are in one of those states, vote no.

2008-10-27 11:39 | Event: Write to Marry Day

Here is the Wikipedia article on California's Proposition 8. The proposition is seeking to add this to the California Constitution: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Being liberal-minded myself, it is no surprise that I am firmly against this bigoted proposition. I am against restricting marriage to a man and a woman, I am against nullifying existing marriages, and I am way against giving even a millimeter of ground to people who are in fact that insecure about their marriages.

Two wonderful things:

• Google's position is vote no on Prop. 8.
• Apple not only says no to Prop. 8, they have donated $100,000 to the No On 8 campaign.

Donate to No On Prop 8 here.

2008-10-20 20:16 | Random.

Random things on my mind.

• I could never see stupid name-calling from either side of the political divide and it would still be too goddamn soon.  For serious.  Grown people are doing this, and I do not just refer to Republicans here.
• I 100% like this interface better.
• I swear, the more I read about marriage and divorce, the less likely I am to ever, ever get married.  Jesus, I will deal with the paperwork hassle of domestic partnership instead.

I think I had more, but my brain's been replaced with Skittles, so I am going to go play The Sims some more, instead.

2008-09-17 12:49 | Wahahahaha.

Couple fight gender-neutral language in wedding license

"To the state of California, however, she is either "Party A" or "Party B." Those are the terms that have replaced "bride" and "groom" on the state's new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable."

I… can't stop laughing at this.

""We just feel that our rights have been violated," she said."

*dies laughing*

2008-02-02 13:52 | Maybe I could learn to like New York…

An appeals court has ruled that a gay couple's marriage in Canada should be recognized in New York.

"The state Legislature "may decide to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages solemnized abroad," the ruling said. "Until it does so, however, such marriages are entitled to recognition in New York."

And here's the ACLU press release on the topic.  This is fantastic!

Oh, hey, and, lookit this:

A[n Oregon] state law allowing gay couples to register as domestic partners belatedly took effect Friday after a federal judge ruled the state's process of disqualifying petition signatures was consistent enough to be valid.

I love waking up to good news.

2007-08-22 23:26 | I typoed that as 'Pandagod'.

Pam at Pandagon posted about Kevin McCullough, who ranted about gays and marriage and dragons…

…dragons?

The post is good.  The comments are spectacular.  Observe ye a sample, by karpad:

[Lesbians are] missing out on dragon slaying, is what.
But I think they have some kind of proto-magical super virginity or something, so they get to ride around on unicorns.

If we legalize gay marriage, lesbians will be required to defend their spouses against dragons AND still get unicorns. They can ride into battle on their unicorns, with flowing, brightly colored clothing with their magic swords with their awesome, awesome battlecry of MAGIC FUCK YEAH! WOOOOOOO!

And since all lesbians would have wives, both partners get both a unicorn AND a dragon. That just isn't fair. and the overhunting might extinguish the dragon population.

Eventually, there will only be one dragon left, it'll be soul-bound to some snotty evil prince, and then Dennis Quaid would have to kill Sean Connery.

Is that what you bitches want? Dennis Quaid killing Sexy Old Sean? and a species of beautiful, inspiring animals going extinct? That's why I'm against gay marriage.

Best Logic Evar(tm).  Go read the rest.