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Miscellaneous
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Aug 11
ANIMAL MARRIAGE IN NEW YORK
Rose Marie Belforti
Which bit of that headline doesn’t look right? None or all, according to New York Town clerk Rose Marie Belforti who has decided she can’t issue same sex marriage licences because the wording “spouse” could lead to animals marrying their owners / gay lovers.
Interesting article here in which Ms / Mrs Belforti seems to confuse her job as a town clerk with her Christian beliefs. No, Mrs Belforti, God isn’t the final word unless you happen to live in an isolated convent. For everyone else, there is the law and daily courtesies for fellow human beings.
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Aug 11
BRIDE TURNED AWAY FROM STORE FOR HER “ILLEGAL ACTION”
Oh dear, what sort of awful person does this?
I sincerely hope that the Here Comes the Bride store in Philadelphia, USA, suffers major economic retaliation for this act.
Here is a sample of the nonense Alix Genter was forced to deal with:
“She said she wouldn’t work with me because I’m gay,” you recalled. “She also said that I came from a nice Jewish family, and that it was a shame I was gay. She said, ‘There’s right, and there’s wrong. And this is wrong.’ “
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Jul 11
THE GLOBAL GAY GESTAPO
Loree and Kevin Rudd
WTF? I did not expect to read about Kevin Rudd and the global gay gestapo this morning.
This is one of those situations of “who cares what a relative of a famous person or a famous person says.” They don’t have an extraordinary insight, they just have a name.
Well, seeing as I am happy to take all the good stuff from our liberal friendly celebrities … I have to support the downside of this fame game too. Like the sister of the recent Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, saying Australia is being held hostage by the “gay gestapo” when it comes to marriage equality. Go back in your box!
Insensitive. Wrong. Lacking in insight. Offensive to all Gestapo victims. We could go on. And we could also say that Brother Rudd is playing it smart by shutting up, which is something Sister Rudd would have been well advised to do.
But someone has to condemn this crazy lady, and I am certainly going to be one of those people. And it will be a good day when she leaves the Australian Labor Party which is growing more enlightened and will one day cut these sorts of people loose and officially adopt equality as its national policy.
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Jul 11
GAY MARRIAGE CARTOON SLIDESHOW
Cartoon credit: Dave Grunland
Found this nifty cartoon slideshow that you might be interested in.
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Jul 11
GAY PRESIDENT FOR IRELAND
Irish Presidential candidate David Norris strikes a pose
It looks like a gay is going to win either way in the upcoming Presidential election in Ireland.
The Irish will vote for the post in October, and the two leading contenders are independent senator David Norris, who is gay in the sense of gay marriage. And then there is Gay Mitchell, the candidate of the government party Fine Gael, who just has a gay name and is married. Alas, the female gays are invisible.
May the best gay win!
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May 11
THE WRONG REASONS FOR SAME SEX MARRIAGE
While fully agreeing with this article from the New York Times, I have to say that Jaye Cee Whitehead leaves out the best examples of her own argument and analysis.
Basically, she says it is dehumanising to argue for equality on the basis of economic competitiveness or the revenue a booming wedding industry brings in. True.
But the biggest economic gains are not from weddings, they are actually from the better health that people have throughout their life when someone is there to care for them – they live longer, healthier etc and are therefore also not a big fat burden on the state.
And secondly the best reason for equality isn’t because we are citizens, even if that sounds the most idealistic reason (children are citizens too; fathers and daughters are citizens but not good marriage partners); it’s because we are as capable of fulfilling the obligations of marriage as any other adult.
Finally, after what the banks and their leaders just did to our economies, supporting marriage equality is the least they can do.
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Apr 11
NOT A GAY MARRIAGE – SHORT BREAK
Hello folks. Somewhat in contradiction with my support for republican systems of government, I’m off to London tomorrow for THE Royal Wedding event of the well, let’s face it, the decade, only.
No, Stan isn’t a prince, and he isn’t shagging the security detail, we’re just joining a garden party. The relevant point is that means I won’t post for a few days.
I do support this effort by Peter Tatchell and Equal Love though. I wonder if they’ll do a shout out to the gays in during their vows? It’d be the only way to top the last memorable speech in Westminster Abbey – by the groom’s uncle at his mother’s funeral in 1997.
