A Step (Or Two) In The Right Direction

OK ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you, I was trying to avoid some of that political stuff for a while and concentrate on more personal posts. The result? I just avoided posting. But I have to celebrate a couple of really great things that have happened in the US recently. 

Really great thing number one: same-sex marriage passes in Maine!

Really great thing number two: The Washington D.C. Council voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where it is legal!

Of course the uber-conservative lunatics immediately lashed out against both the moves. Remember the cracked-out D.C. Mayor Marion Barry? He rather vocally opposed the measure on moral grounds. And isn't it lovely that he was the ONLY council-person to do so? 

And then there are the folks in Maine who are gearing up to fight to have voters repeal the legislation. Bishop Richard Malone has appeared at the forefront of the anti-gay-marriage movement. He called same-sex marriage a "dangerous sociological experiment" and went on to yammer the usually unfounded b.s. about protecting children from the scary homos. Same-sex marriage will have to be taught in schools? Is "opposite-sex" marriage taught in schools? I've never seen it in any of the standards or the curricula of any of the states where I taught. It's an absurd claim. But YOU already know that, don't you ladies and gentlemen and the rest of you?

Anyway it's nice to see some good stuff happening back in the ol' red-blooded white-skinned blue-balled U. S. of A. 

BTW, Don't miss Jon Stewart's take on the whole thing. (I would have put it here but I can never get Comedy Central's stuff to embed.)