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Aug. 4th, 2010 02:52 pmProp 8 overturned~
'Bout time someone saw sense about that one. Guess California figured that they couldn't let Iowa be more progressive than them, or something?
I like this statement out of that article, though: "The attorneys also said gay marriage was an experiment with unknown social consequences that should be left to voters to accept or reject."
Bill C-38's been on the books in Canada since 2005, and same-sex marriages have been performed in certain provinces since 2003, with an even earlier marriage recognized as being valid from 2001. There has, in fact, been no great social breakdown; we still rock at hockey at the Olympic level and Tim Hortons has not closed, and there've only been two more divorces than there would have been otherwise. I've even had a straight marriage in that time with no ill consequences (other than the usual slew of paperwork involved in changing all my ID; that sucks).
Really, one could argue that equalizing the rights of gay people has had one social consequence - having the issue more up-front and accepted by law means that, theoretically, less people, in the future, will grow to be terrible bigots. Oh no!
(Sadly the future is not now; we still get hate crimes happening now and then, in the meantime.)
In other news, I do not get to make oodles of fondue after all. Apparently tonight is not a good night for fondue party for everyone! I'll have to guard the cheese and tasty bread a little while longer against Travis, but I still might make a pie, just 'cause.
'Bout time someone saw sense about that one. Guess California figured that they couldn't let Iowa be more progressive than them, or something?
I like this statement out of that article, though: "The attorneys also said gay marriage was an experiment with unknown social consequences that should be left to voters to accept or reject."
Bill C-38's been on the books in Canada since 2005, and same-sex marriages have been performed in certain provinces since 2003, with an even earlier marriage recognized as being valid from 2001. There has, in fact, been no great social breakdown; we still rock at hockey at the Olympic level and Tim Hortons has not closed, and there've only been two more divorces than there would have been otherwise. I've even had a straight marriage in that time with no ill consequences (other than the usual slew of paperwork involved in changing all my ID; that sucks).
Really, one could argue that equalizing the rights of gay people has had one social consequence - having the issue more up-front and accepted by law means that, theoretically, less people, in the future, will grow to be terrible bigots. Oh no!
(Sadly the future is not now; we still get hate crimes happening now and then, in the meantime.)
In other news, I do not get to make oodles of fondue after all. Apparently tonight is not a good night for fondue party for everyone! I'll have to guard the cheese and tasty bread a little while longer against Travis, but I still might make a pie, just 'cause.
