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Marriage is love.

Of course, marriage is many things to many people. Not all people want legal entanglements for an essentially personal, emotional relationship. Not all people want governments to be in the business of deciding who is allowed to love who, and in what ways. Not all people want to be stuck with some belching lard-ass drunk child-beater for fifty years. But everyone should get that opportunity.

But seriously, this meme seems to be targeted at the fantastic events in San Francisco (the new mayor said 'the hell with the law' and just told City Hall to start issuing licenses and performing same-sex marriages). Hundreds of couples have been married this weekend, and the religious right is panicked. They should be, because they will lose. It might take a while, and it will be painful in the Land Of The Not-Really-Free-We-Just-Pretend, but they will lose. And the panic will make them stupid.

So I'm pasting the HTML above to join in the fun.

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Did you see CBC News: Sunday today? They did a special on same-sex marriage - broadcasting a same-sex wedding from Toronto (with special guest Svend Robinson) and discussing counter arguments in the studio down on Front St. (I'm watching it on Replay right now so I'm not sure how it works out in the end.)

So far, the counter argument is that the sole purpose of marriage is to procreate. I'm not even going to get started on how much that argument pisses me off. But I will say that I've decided that there is no way in hell that I will get married in a state/province that does not allow same-sex marriage*.

S.

*Okay, so this isn't such an issue right now seeing as how I spent last night (Valentine's Day) in an Irish bar with all of the other single people in Seattle. But if it ever comes up, remind me of this post.