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nah, a sincere happy congratulations to everyone, enjoy pride weekend, i'm sure this will be one to remember!
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Baseball history was made in Northern California when the sport's first active professional player to come out as gay pitched a shutout before an enthusiastic crowd that seemed more impressed with his performance than his role as a pioneer.
http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Basebal…
(I realize this makes me a small person. It's possible that I don't care.)
Congratulations America. You've now caught up with Uruguay.
BONUS:
All over the country, walls are splattered with the exploded brains of religious blowhards.
I love that neighborhood, lived there for a few months.
Flats and Sharps Music Store on the main drag near the lake.
And a Frank Lloyd Wright house up a few blocks. Cool Cool stuff.
Bill, hang out at the library on Clark St. awhile for me, would ya?
I knew this day was coming but most of me never really believed it. And here we are. It's beautiful and sunny outside, and the sun has finally broken out from behind the clouds all over America. I hear they're issuing licenses in Missouri and Mississippi and South Carolina. It's a good day. God bless America.
And Dan - Thank You. On a Macro and Micro level your humane (and funny) arguments for equality have had a huge impact. I do think it is fair to say you have been our most prominent national civil rights advocate in this area for at least a decade.
And over two decades ago, when you first started writing your differently named column in The Stranger, I was this straight grad student at the UW who wasn't really politicized on the issue. I recall vividly that I became a staunch advocate largely due to the logic of your writing. And I raised my girls in that environment.
Now that my big girl, with her girlfriend of three years, is celebrating pride in SF this weekend, I can also be proud of being on the right side of history since before she was born.
Thank you. You helped me with that. Now stop making me cry... ;)
I'm so happy for everyone whose lives will be made better by this ruling. I'm so happy that this happened in my lifetime, and I got to see it and share it. This is worth more than gold.
Now, what do I do with that "=" sticker on the back of my car? It did its job.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mi…
Now they just need to remove the "we are bigoted against anyone not rich, male and white" plank, and we can make some progress as a nation.
Must be a day that ends in "y."
I have now lived through two of the most momentous events in our Nation's - and indeed the world's - history: the first footprints made by humans on the moon, and now this. Congratulations and mazel tov to my LGBT brothers and sisters - enjoy your weekend! But, as others above have noted, there's still more to do.
"The time has come. You are all fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: more life. The great work begins..."
@40: Now it's just matter of time before we're allowed to marry hamsters and telephone poles. And how long before poly triads and quads (etc.) can get married?
I wish I could be proud of my country more often. But I'll happily take things like this any day.
America has chosen the side of love, of honor, of respect, and basic human decency.
And Fnarf/Mrs. Fnarf: http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2…
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"That is not to say the right to marry is less meaningful for those who do not or cannot have children. An ability, desire, or promise to procreate is not and has not been a prerequisite for a valid marriage in any State. In light of precedent protecting the right of a married couple not to procreate, it cannot be said the Court or the States have conditioned the right to marry on the capacity or commitment to procreate. The constitutional marriage right has many aspects, of which childbearing is only one."
Happy Pride Everybody!
A slightly longer quote:
"This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
Bye now.
You are fabulous creatures, each and every one.
And I bless you: More Life.
The Great Work Begins.
END OF PLAY "
Please remember in your revels those of us who didn't make it to this AMAZING point of our shared history.
Dang! That guy is cutting onions again...
~♥~Happy Pride everyone~♥~
A few months ago, Slate had a list of the best 25 podcasts ever, and Savage Love episode 109 from 2008 came in at #14. I'm on it--the straight caller who reminds Dan that the fight for marriage equality is not only being fought by gays, and saying that what needs to happen, what I know will happen is that this issue will go to the Supreme Court as a Fourteenth Amendment case where it will surely win.
And here we are, at that day.
My heart is so light.
At bloody last..Congratulations.
Now for Australia.
I don't listen to podcasts, but I think I will have to listen to that one just because you called in.
That's a good voicemail--on the fly, perhaps, but thoughtful, eloquent, passionate.
I do feel a little sorry for Mrs Clinton. She wanted both the issue and a chunk of the credit; to give her her due, she comes closer to really getting non-hetero issues than either Mr C or Mr O.
I hope Ms Ginsburg has other driving causes to keep her going.
While I'll admit to thinking that most of my friends can do better than marriage, it will be a comfort to think that those that do will do so by choice.
Most of all, I wonder about the fate of a little ring I bought about twenty-four years ago - what happened to it, and what it would mean now. In the memory of one who was far better than I deserved, I'll hold off on FMA predictions until after the US Open.
Mr. Ven, I think the reason that Ms. Clinton "gets" non-hetero issues better than her husband is because so much time has passed.
Thank you!
Nice to see Kim back here too.