Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Which is surprising, since polls tend to show that more Americans support gay marriage rights than oppose it. (Or at least, that more Americans would rather see gay marriage legalized than would support a Constitutional ban.)
Yeah, that's why I said "voters."
Did I say surprising? I meant depressing...
Wow. Interesting. Is it possible that such a federal ban would actually happen?
God. I want to go to bed hold my knees and rock until all the terrible people go away.
Is it possible that such a federal ban would actually happen?
I don't see how they would have support for a Constitutional amendment....
Also, does what Romney did in high school in 1965 matter?
Romney: A Gay-Basher In High School
Not likely, it would have to be ratified by 75% of the state legislatures. The last time it happened was 20 years ago, and that was to place limits on how soon Congressional pay increases could take effect (an issue that you'd probably get near-unanimous voter agreement on).
Sullivan:
One small note. Above, Romney says that we should not discard 3,000 years of history of one-man-one-woman marriage. Ahem. His own family were ardent polygamists only a century ago - and went to Mexican colonies to escape US federal oppression of their version of marriage (which also goes back a long, long way and still exists across the world). Romney's great-grandparents were polygamists; one of his his great-great-grandfathers had twelve wives and was murdered by the husband of the twelfth.
For Romney to say that the definition of marriage has remained the same for 3,000 years is disproved by his own family. It's untrue. False. A lie.
Heh.
DOMA is still in effect, isn't it?
I hate bigots.
also? lefty people need to get off their asses and vote.
also also? 2 20 minute visits with co-worker friends is messing up my tracking sheet. Maybe I work thru lunch and shift when those happened to fit the document?
Oh, great. Once again, my family and I are going to be targets in an election.
msbelle, when I worked for the law firm two years ago, we didn't bill hourly, but I still tracked my time in 6 minute increments. It actually made me so stressed out that I just switched to a end of day "estimate". Which maybe you can't do, but I find tracking my time to induce huge amounts of non-productive stressed-out delays.
Actually, when I worked for DHS, I had to do the same thing, but since it wasn't assigned to a client, it was easier to just estimate.