Same Sex Marriage Legal In All Of United States Of America

Now they can suffer the depression of a terrible marriage and large divorce fees woopee

 

Lol, but exactly.

 

I ran across this article talking about the benefits to children. Gay parents have had the support of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 2002. For 30 years they've studied the situation and say

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/06/26/when-love-wins-children-win-too-supreme-court-legalizes-gay-marriage/

 

I can tell you a few things about that. I was driving home from work on Friday...thinking about the SCOTUS ruling and my thoughts drifted to growing up with my mom and her "cousin" and her kids who were, by default, my "cousins". It made the hair on my arms stand up. Seriously! It was such an ingrained facade that we almost really believed it...almost. It was made very clear to us that we were never to stray from the facade. I probably didn't understand all of the possible ramifications in the early to mid 1980's but we were well aware of how we were to conduct ourselves.

I remember one time....one of us (I don't remember who) said the word "lesbian" in our own home. The "moms" lost it. I remember it like it was yesterday. They yelled at us and said "You never, ever say that word! You don't say it here and you definitely never say it anywhere else. Do you understand me?!" I must have been about 10-11 when that happened and it was clear that it struck a nerve.

I also remember that my first girlfriend, Tonya, lived with her mom and her moms "cousin" and her sons. They (the moms) shared a bedroom and a bed. Tonya once explained that they were cousins but shared a room because of a lack of space otherwise. I dutifully played along "Of course....that makes sense. It's the same at my house". It's interesting.....the girl who taught me how to "french kiss", who I spent hours and hours with alone...and we "loved" each other so much and could tell each other anything....the conversation about our moms stopped dead in its tracks with "They're cousins". Understood. That's how ingrained it was.

It was so much of a different time back then. I've never even talked to my band mates about the subject (mostly just because it hasn't come up) but they've all met my mom. I'm sure they know and have never said anything about it because it's not even worth pointing out today. There is usually some debate about what song we will close with but yesterday when I said I wanted to close with What's Up?....there was no debate. They were just like "Yeah...perfect." I love those dudes.

 

What about the 115,000,000 events that occured around the world that do not align with the metaphorical properties with mars going in retrograde?

 

That was meant to be a light-hearted answer to a light-hearted question. I'm not a major astrologer.

 

Wiz, I'm glad the kids are being brought up in more open times.

Family secrets are such a burden on kids.

 

I think the smartest thing anyone can do in the USA right now is get into wedding planning. I feel like everyone is caught up in the moment and too openly happy and gay to realise the marketing plot behind it, which is doubled 200% by opening up another sexuality to start paying for ceremony etc.

That's what I'd be doing, because anyone in wedding planning and wedding stores at the moment is simply laughing aloud and rubbing their mittens together to make more profit from your happiness. Get on it people!

 

Gays already plan weddings better than any straight people anyway.

 

I dont think BIG PHARMA would let that happen!! (They know how many things it can help cure and they lose $$$$$$)

 

Watching episodes of Mad Men, the accepted misogyny and racism seems unreal and its embarrassing to think of that time being so close to our own. Sometimes, the news is just this barrage of negativity. It makes it hard to see how far we can move away from that kind of mentality. Between the legalization of gay marriage and the general public consensus that the Confederate Flag is not worth the pride its instills in the few, last week felt like a long overdue breath of fresh air. I felt like we rejoined civilization.

 

Didnt this put Pat Robertson into a coma or give him a stroke? .....

So, I was in the car scanning the FM band when I came across this other preacher talking about Lust in gay relationships. Basically, the same rules apply now, and having sex outside of marriage is a sin. I lold..

 

LOL those radio shows are like the sound of dinosaurs...post-comet!

 

I remember when my son was about 11 or so and was asking questions about my brother and if he had children, if he was married, etc.

I wound up telling him that no his uncle wouldn't be having any children and he had a boyfriend that he lived with.

My son was like ok...

My mother hit the roof when she found out I "told". I loled at her, I remember and that pissed her off more.

She got over it quick enough.

Since, he and his fella were married on Halloween in 2011 or so in Cali.

But this is a wonderful moment in the nation's history.

Like Obama said...This was a good week.

 

It happening is pretty much assured. Four states and D.C. have already done it. And the money they are raking in gives those states a big surplus. It's just like the casinos. At first only New Jersey and Nevada had them. But the other states were losing too much revenue. Now about the only state that doesn't have gaming is Utah.

Equal rights are for everyone, including Polygamists. Next!.......

 

I started watching this again on N##fl!x (I don't advertise for huge corporate hoe bags). It's setting is only 10 or so years after WW2, so the mindset reminds me of how so many were when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviets fizzled. For a short while it seemed like the very idea of a war was remote. That's not to say that the Cold War didn't goof with a lot of people back in the 50s, but living a decade after a world war was probably a unique experience.

Thankfully all of that was so long ago and we have indeed made substantial progress since then, 60 or so years ago. While some of the problems we see today SEEM like reverting back to the 50s, I fail to see how we possibly could. Unless, of course, we have another massive, world-consuming war that has us all fighting for survival. Unfortunately that sense of survival tends to wipe out much of what has been decent in people. We must never forget that we are not supreme beings, just very clever primates.

But we're not too clever if we allow our technology alone to lead us into thinking that we're "civilized". I've said before that making gay marriage into a right was not really a victory. Getting the government out of marriage altogether would have been a victory. Allowing the government to regulate more people's lives and marriages just doesn't feel like a winning strategy. I also think the flag issue was a needless distraction and because of it few people can name the victims of the church massacre. I personally have no problem with people who fly whatever flag they want. It makes it far easier to know whom to avoid. Driving them underground is how we got the KKK.

Last of all, Mad Men really capitalizes on how women and children were treated back then. One of the nasty jokes from an episode went something like "Your wife and your lawyer are drowning, what kind of sandwich do you make?" absolutely disgusting. A classic from Draper was "Who cares what women think?". And then there's the very idea that having a divorced woman living in their neighborhood would cause property values to drop. Oh how far we have come. I did like the way the switchboard operators were portrayed. It was obvious that anyone who didn't respect them would be repaid with phone problems. My grandmother ran a switchboard at a huge department store. Everybody was nice to her!

 

I think this just opened a whole shit load of issues, not just gay rights. Anything that is even remotely Constitutional is now on the table.
And MY thoughts on this whole she-bang- "Ohhh! Can open! Worms...everywhere!"

 

I wish this would happen ALL over the world. <3

 

As of last week (as far as I know) gay couples were able to get marriage licenses everywhere in America except Rowan County, Kentucky, due to the objections of county clerk Kim Davis. She seems to have this strange idea in her head that the voters elected her to follow her own personal religious convictions rather than the law, and that her signature on a marriage license communicates her personal approval of the marriage, not just the fact that a couple has satisfied all legal requirements related to completing the marriage license application document. She’s in jail for contempt of court, after a federal judge ordered her to do her job, and she refused.

Now the right wing media is making her out to be some kind of a martyr for religious freedom, which they are interpreting as the right of powerful individuals in local government to force their religious beliefs on other people. She says she isn’t going to back down. If she’s that stubborn and out of touch with what her job is, it would be fine with me if she stays in jail for the rest of her life. Legally, she can be released as soon as she agrees to obey US law or resigns her position.

I think such people violate their oath of office when they swear to uphold and support the law and the Constitution, when it’s clear that they have run for office only to get a chance to uphold and support the Bible as they understand and apply it. They are taking taxpayer money to do this, which is dishonest. Why doesn’t she ask Jesus for a paycheck, rather than accept one from a government that she doesn’t respect or obey?

 

She was first married in 1984, when she was 18, and divorced a decade later, court records show. Five months after the marriage dissolved, she gave birth to twins by another man.
In 1996, she married again, and her new husband adopted the twins. They divorced in 2006.
The following year, she married the father of her twins. That third marriage lasted less than a year.
In 2009, Davis remarried her second husband, Joe Davis. They remain wed.