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If you’re planning a trip to Vermont with the kiddos, slowly back away from the suitcase. A bunch of Tulsa parents think a view of Vermont is going to ruin your precious grublets forever.
The problem? They allow men to get married there. I know, I know, it’s shocking but true.
Oh yeah, and they don’t want your kids to read about it either. Continue reading »
One thing that opponents of same-sex marriage overlook is the fact that many, many gay couples are already raising families. And the children of those families are increasingly speaking up for their parents — and themselves.
One is Kasey Nicholson-McFadden, a blond-haired 10-year-old boy who looks like he just stepped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. Continue reading »
In our house, it’s simply “The Trial”. My brother-in-law, who follows such things, says that this is probably the biggest case in the last 40 years. It will very likely affect every state in the nation and will either affirm or weaken the constitution, depending on the outcome. And whatever the outcome, in another twenty years’ time, it will almost certainly be moot, except as a chapter in high school civics books. The Trial, of course, is the case of Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger et al, also known as the federal challenge to California’s Proposition 8.
Remember Will Phillips, the ten-year-old boy from West Fork, Arkansas who decided that he was not going to recite the Pledge of Allegiance until the phrase “with liberty and justice for all” was accurate — that is, until everyone was able to marry the person they love? Young Will was, of course, referring to the issue of marriage equality — more specifically, the lack of marriage equality in this country. Will’s protest garnered international attention after he got in trouble for talking back to a substitute teacher about it — after four days of the teacher trying to force him to stand and recite the pledge, he told her “Ma’am, with all due respect, you can go jump off a bridge.”
Yay Gay Rights Cream!
To celebrate legalized gay marriage in Vermont, Ben and Jerry is changing the popular “Chubby Hubby” ice cream to “Hubby Hubby” for a month.
“The legalization of marriage for gay and lesbian couples in Vermont is certainly a step in the right direction, and something worth celebrating with peace, love – and plenty of ice cream,” said Ben & Jerry’s CEO Walt Freese.
A woman who left her wife to convert to evangelical Christianity is now facing jail . . . because she doesn’t think the Vermont courts have the right to force her to send a little girl conceived during their relationship to visit her ex-girlfriend. Continue reading »
I know I had everybody excited for naught back in April, but this is for real, folks. In the skit below, a (mouse) queen tries to choose which of two kings she will marry. After giving up and asking to be blindfolded so she can choose arbitrarily, the kings take a look at each other and decide that maybe they’d be happier together. They have their hands ceremoniously joined by the singing narrator of the story and leave the scene to live happily ever after: Continue reading »
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