Here are some of the links about gay marriage on my desktop right now… Many of these links are a few days old, but they’re still cool.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of confused but vocal protesters lined the street outside the statehouse Monday night, waving both American and rainbow flags. Their chants, which broke out in pockets up and down the street, included, “Hey hey, ho ho, homophobia’s got to go, but frankly, this is fucked up” and “Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve, but not Adam and Some Random Guy.” Others held signs that read, “On Second Thought, Boston Christians Are Willing To Consider A Compromise.”<\/p>\n
According to police reports, demonstrators were vocal but orderly.<\/p>\n
“The unholy union of people of the same gender destroys the only type of romantic love sanctioned by Our Lord in Heaven: the love between a man and a woman,” 54-year-old protester Rose Shoults said. “Me and my new partner Helene are going to fry in hell.”<\/p>\n
The much-anticipated order sets the stage for Massachusetts’ upcoming constitutional convention, where the state legislature will consider an amendment to legally define marriage as a union between two members of the same gender. Without the order, Rep. Michael Festa said the vote, and his personally dreaded wedding to House Speaker and longtime political opponent Thomas Finneran, would be delayed.<\/p>\n
“This is a victory, not only for our state, but for America,” Festa said. “Simply allowing consenting gay adults the same rights as heterosexuals was never the point. By forcing everyone in the state into a gay marriage, we’re setting the stage for our more pressing hidden agendas: mandatory sodomy and, in due time, the legalization of bestiality and pedophilia.”<\/p><\/div>\n
Another wonderful photo gallery of San Francisco is Emphemera.org’s Justly Married<\/a>.<\/p>\n As we bloggers say, read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The results of more than a century of anthropological research on households, kinship relationships, and families, across cultures and through time, provide no support whatsoever for the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution. Rather, anthropological research supports the conclusion that a vast array of family types, including families built upon same-sex partnerships, can contribute to stable and humane societies.”<\/p><\/div>\n The New York Times <\/i>has an interesting article describing how folks on both sides of the SSM debate are trying to get endorsements from black ministers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advocates of gay marriage are appealing to those on the left end of that spectrum to show that the issue is really about civil rights. Those opposed are courting more conservative blacks as evidence that they are not bigots for suggesting the issue has nothing to do with civil rights. The resulting alliances are often used publicly to imply backing of “the church” as a whole.<\/p><\/div>\n A quote that I bet not many SSM-opponents will be using: “If the K.K.K. opposes gay marriage, I would ride with them,” said Rev. Gregory Daniels of Chicago.<\/p>\n .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some of the links about gay marriage on my desktop right now… Many of these links are a few days old, but they’re still cool. Everyone’s linked to this Onion article, and with good reason. BOSTON?Justices of the … Continue reading