Well, in the span of one week, the countries of the world who allow gay marriage have doubled! Previously, only Belgium and the Netherlands did so. Earlier this week, Canada's House of Commons voted to do so, thier Senate is expected to do so soon, and it'll become law by the end of July. But just yesteday, Spain's Conress Of Deputies changed legislation allowing gay marriage! Whoo-hoo. go here for the whoel story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8413036/
Wouldn't it be great if we could double that amount next week, and double the amount the week after and so on and so on. I believe the trend is irreversable. Oh the old, hard line far right religious radicals here will do their best to deny American gays and lesbians all the rights that thier straight fellow citizens have, but as they age, and thier grip on power becomes little more than hanging on by thier fingernails, it will change. As those types die off, they'll be replaced by younger people, people who grew up in the 80's 90's and 00's where gays and lesbians were not hiding in thier closets anymore, but out on TV, in the movies, and in thier own general lives. The youth of today do not find gays and lesbians freaks as their parents do. They just accept that gays and lesbians are here, so why shouldn't they have the same rights as straights?
I have little hope that anything will change here soon. I mean America is the only one among the "civilized" nations, the Industrial West, that routinely kills its own citizens by capitol punishment, has rampant and nearly unrestricted ownership of firearms, and doesnt use the Metric system. Whether these things are right or wrong isn't my point, my point is, we're at odds with the world community on many other issues, so i see no reason why we'd suddenly change and join them on this issue. but maybe we will with more enlightened, progressive leadership we hopefully will get sometime in the future.
As the Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero said, “We were not the first, but I am sure we will not be the last. After us will come many other countries, driven, ladies and gentlemen, by two unstoppable forces: freedom and equality”. Kudos to the Spanish.
POLT
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man, polt, that's gotta suck for you. you always loved going to canada for the 1 night stands, now you'll be trying to avoid marriage the whole time. i figured your life as a gay man would be hard enough without trying to flee potential suiters. now momma shockey can bug you about when you're settling down. don't get hitched too soon, polt, i'm sure there are plenty of 18 yr and 1 minute yr olds that would be deprived. ;-)
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