Embarrassed

This bible-thumpin' god-knobber is my US Representative.

Stop hiding your own marital angst behind some imaginary threat manufactured by your imaginary friend. If you think a coupla gay people getting married poses a threat to your marriage, then the trouble lies with you, not them.

A Quick Check

As of this morning, there are 18 states in the US where it's legal (in one way or another) to marry someone of your own gender:
CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, IA, ME, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, RI, VT, WA

There are also 8 aboriginal tribes in the US who say it's alright.

And, here's a list of other countries and/or cities with some kinda of accommodation for Marriage Equality:

Argentina
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Denmark

England
France
Iceland
Mexico - Quintana Roo and Mexico City
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Portugal

Scotland
South Africa
Spain
Sweden

Uruguay

Wales

I like to go back and check on certain things - particularly things that politicians say when they peer into the mists of the future and make bold predictions of outcomes and consequences when they're either in favor of or opposed to the enactment of policy.

So I did a cursory search, and I've found a coupla things I think are worth noting.

1) In places where Marriage Equality is the rule, more people are getting married, and the Marriage Failure Rate is unchanged. "Gay Marriage" is not destroying anybody's marriage or anybody's family.  Families and marriages are in fact being destroyed - by unemployment, PTSD, Wall Street leeches and phony foreclosures, boredom, doctor bill bankruptcies, infidelity (whatever the fuck that even means), etc - but people getting married to people they love?  That one just ain't on the list.

2) There has been no increase in the reporting of "Criminal Bestiality" - which happens to remain a legal activity in 12 states btw - so there's been none of the dread Man On Dog Sexual Perversions that all the "conservatives" knew had to follow closely on the heels of any and all attempts to pull the ginormous Religiosity Stick out of Rick Santorum's ass.

Can we get on to the important shit now, please?

Virginia Is For Lovers

...again...kinda.  (The judge stayed her own decision to allow for appeal)

A federal court decided yesterday that Virginia's constitutional amendment banning same-gender marriage is stoopid.  Yay, Judge Allen.

Richmond Times-Dispatch:

A federal judge struck down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban Thursday, finding that it violates the equal protection clause under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen followed arguments by the plaintiffs in Bostic v. Rainey who had argued that the 2006 amendment to the state Constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman denies gays and lesbians the fundamental right to marry, essentially making them second-class citizens.

"There can be no serious doubt that in America, the right to marry is a rigorously protected fundamental right," the judge wrote in her ruling. "The Supreme Court has recognized repeatedly that marriage is a fundamental right protected both by the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."

Wright Allen, appointed to the bench in 2011 by President Barack Obama, added that marriage rights are "of basic importance in our society, rights sheltered by the Fourteenth Amendment against the State’s 'unwarranted usurpation, disregard, or disrespect.' "

"The right to marry is inseparable from our rights to privacy and intimate association."

I guess I can only assume the wingnuts are unhappy, cuz it seems a rather mysterious silence has descended over Goober Nation.

RedState = nuthin'
Fox Nation = crickets
Breitbart = zip
WND = it shows up, but it's just a link to a very short piece at NBC

As of 10:45AM today: Mostly Bupkis.

There was one story (well below the headlines) on the DumFux News site, but gosh, "Comments are currently closed for this article".  What on earth could that be about?