My Traditional Marriage quote for the day, from Pomeranz and Topik's The World That Trade Created:
European marriage generally linked two "houses" in which males controlled the capital and managed the business by exchanging a woman [...] as if she was a trade item herself
Lots of straight readers of The Stranger spend ridiculous amounts of time thinking about same-sex marriage because douchebags like Santorum make our heads explode.
I live in Canada where same-sex marriage is legal and I obsess over wacko Republican hang-ups.
Give The Onion credit for the subtle genius, as well: "Nicholas Wiseman (1802–1865) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Wi…
http://www.theonion.com/video/heartbroke…
I live in Canada where same-sex marriage is legal and I obsess over wacko Republican hang-ups.