Congratuations to Callaluna! Baby girls are awesome, says she with 5 1/2 months experience.

I got a jury summons and Maryland doesn't specifically recognize breastfeeding as a reason to ask for an exemption or postponement. Wish my letter asking for a 6 month postponement luck in finding the right sympathetic reader.

"When you put that sign up, you were talking about me, to me. Let me tell you what that means to me." She knocked on 199 doors, and 198 people took their signs down.

Amazing, just so inspiring.

Stayed up too late last night watching V and SYTYCD, but did manage to catch the "on time" bus today, though I wanted to catch the "early" bus. About the latter show I just have to say - Wade Robson, never change.

I am having a hard time celebrating marriage when it's denied to so many people for no goddamn good reason except fear and hatred.

Are you really sure you want to leave Massachusetts? Not that California won't be delighted to get you (and not that I'm not exploding with excitement at you coming to the Bay Area, because I am), but your current home state is one of the few in the country doing right by its citizens in this regard. It's a pretty awesome place, really.

eta:

"When you put that sign up, you were talking about me, to me. Let me tell you what that means to me."

With the first neighbor, she was shaking and crying (which apparently is very unlike her), both from fear and because she knew this woman and had considered her a good, friendly neighbor. So when she knocked on the door tears were running down her face, and when the neighbor saw her she gasped and said, "Oh, my dear! What happened? Come in, have some coffee, tell me what's wrong." And, because she'd been thoughtless but not malicious, she was completely horrified and ashamed to realize that she was what had happened. It's the kind of thing that can really only happen in a small town where everyone at least knows everyone else's face.

So crappy that that was how this activist had to do it, so astonishing that she did it anyway.

And, Sparky, what the hell? I am so over this entire culture going on and on about the value of families and the importance of Mommies, as long as they're (a) exactly the right kind of mommies in the right familial configuration, and (b) not asserting or even asking for any rights that might inconvenience anyone else for even a moment.

your current home state is one of the few in the country doing right by its citizens in this regard.

Honestly? That's the biggest "con" of moving to CA. It even beats out the fact that the state is pretty much financially kaput.

Man, I'm barely rational about the whole issue today. The systematic validation of insane prejudice is really grinding me down, almost to 2004 post-Election Day levels.

The systematic validation of insane prejudice is really grinding me down, almost to 2004 post-Election Day levels.

The main thing that makes me feel better is, in the long run we'll win. The generation in their 50s and 60s is far more homophobic than the generation in their 20s. The side of prejudice is on the wrong side of history....

The generation in their 50s and 60s is far more homophobic than the generation in their 20s.

Yeah, another friend of mine pointed this out as well, but I'm not ready for cold comfort yet. Later today, tomorrow, next week, maybe.

Matthew 5:32

32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

Where are the marriage defenders on this? That's not even some narrative there, that's straight-up new testament words of Jesus. I'm sure they wouldn't want to be cherry picking the Bible to just reinforce they own prejudices.

Where are the marriage defenders on this?

See, Gud, you have to remember when the Bible was written. Those words were written in times much different than ours, and don't apply today.

But just this verse! Everything else in the Bible is literally true!

Oh, and the thing about mixing fabrics. You can ignore that verse too.

Where are the marriage defenders on this?

I don't know where all of them are, but one guy with a snarky bent has already put a proposition to ban divorce on the 2010 CA ballot, pointing out exactly that--if these people claim they want to protect marriage from being irreversibly damaged and devalued, well, here's the single thing that damages and devalues it most. If you oppose gay marriage but also oppose banning divorce, you're a hypocrite. Put up or shut up.

The generation in their 50s and 60s is far more homophobic than the generation in their 20s.

Not very encouraging to those of us pushing 50 and wanting to be sure of the legal protections. If I end up unable to make decisions for myself, I'd rather the decisions be made by the man I've lived with for close to 20 years and not the biological family I haven't seen in close to 15 years.