Gay Marriage to Alfred: Your Thoughts

http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-get-to-determine-whether-gay-people-can-marry,30684/

Some of the sausage making:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/the-marriage-plot/265865/?single_page=true

As natural as Obama's statement may have sounded, his words were as carefully chosen as the interview. The testimonial to the gay men and women in his life; the discussion of values and the Golden Rule; the remarkable fact that America's first black president, discussing an issue many see as a modern civil-rights struggle (with a black interviewer, no less)

A short, round, bald, slightly nebbishy presence, Wolfson, ironically enough, resembles more than anything a New York divorce attorney.

Gomer Pyle gets hitched.

I grilled gr8080 over drinks a few weeks ago about Jim Nabors' public life in Hawaii.

our scenes don't really overlap too often

one never knows

ilx fanfic

so will Nabors be asked to sing at the start of the Indy 500 as usual?

had no idea Nabors was gay. was this well known?

I heard the jokes about him and Rock Hudson being 'married' in the late '70s

One of Drew Friedman's early comics, "Strange Bedfellows," was a Hudson/Nabors page. (Weirdo, 1984)

UK House of Commons vote approves gay marriage

slow handclap

What exactly happens next anyway -- House of Lords still has to sign off on it or...?

They take it to the royal Corgis for approval or something, idk

no peace in the UK till there's a gay royal wedding imo

we don't want them

i'm not even joking when i say i'd rather we abolished the monarchy than passed equal marriage

(yes, house of lords now)

we don't want them

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm119476276/sybil-paperback-cover-art.jpgp

Or, rather:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qCRpAKOlU3M/T4M8OWCARRI/AAAAAAAAALU/LsVUMZ4IGU8/s1600/0214sybil.jpg

Shows how France is still miles behind the UK when it comes to equality.

how many gays have been knighted? (real question).

closeted or out?

xp france has its own bill imminent right? is that expected to pass?

tons & tons of gay knights

How can they be expected to get that wedding band over their armored finger?

first openly gay peer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waheed_Alli,_Baron_Alli

god bless wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gay_peers

xpost yeah it will pass, shouldn't take so long, and it's been a callous affair with major anti-marriage equality demonstrations

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Lord_Lloyd.JPG/220px-Lord_Lloyd.JPG

(yes, house of lords now)

Does it not have to go through a Public Bill Committee first, or is that mostly pro forma?

Why are the pretty ones always crazy?

i felt weirdly distanced from all the unpleasant opinions that came out of the woodwork against equal marriage today - is it really a culture WAR if it's only taking place within the tory party, the church and the comments section of the daily mail? it was like a little bonsai culture skirmish, fought by bizarre-world cunts. generally i still think equal marriage is a necessary but minor step towards equality and it's worrying to see anyone treat it like an end goal. as much as i feel like crowing over the opponents, i just feel for the gay kids being raised by them or in those environments, the kids whose identities are being shaped by fear & isolation every day.

For the paranoid authoritarian-follower-types, civilization is always 30 seconds away from total collapse, and only humorless, unrelenting, and simplistic dogmatism can save us.

Plus it makes you feel better that your comfortable unremarkable life now has import, because suddenly you can pretend you're fighting the forces of decay and decadence and corruption.

That's how it works out on the American side of things, at least.

Chik-fil-a 2.0, only this time in the Portland suburbs:

http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2013/02/gresham_bakery_finding_buyers.html#incart_river

wth with this incoherent faux-sophisticated garbage that makes bigots (i.e. all of the intermountain fucking west) feel smart.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865572452/Women-in-battle-and-gay-marriage-are-wrong-celebrations-of-equality.html

ugh i regret linking to d3s3r3t n3ws. fuck those idiots.

That's a Mormon thing, isn't it?

http://gawker.com/5986014/mississippi-newspaper-owner-lets-homophobic-readers-have-it-after-they-cancel-subscriptions-over-coverage-of-historic-same+sex-wedding

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/21/paper-gets-support-after-being-blasted/

Latter link via WilliamC

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/7c10d5030cbb5d61d05ffe5d537ac188/tumblr_miwe32wT1s1qa0uujo1_500.jpg

brilliant

silent generation is silent, except when adam and steve want to marry, or when fish in rice is an option

fuck those salmon-eating savages

also, who the fuck 'approves' of the marriage of two people they don't even know? how is approval even a factor in that scenario?

'do you approve of marjorie and rhonda being married'
'no'
'do you know marjorie?'
'no'
'do you know rhonda?'
'no'
'would you like ginger or wasabi?'
'no'

i'm having gay tuna for lunch, just to piss these people off

I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this marriage

More like Shit Romney and he albacored this maki.