Rhode Island Senate Passed Gay Marriage!

[MatthewVett]

Congratulations, Rhode Island! Took you long enough. All that's left is one largely procedural vote by the House, which already passed it. It might be legal as soon as next week! I'm so proud!

 

[Stella_Omega]

The Republicans were unanimously in favor, too.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Really, it only makes sense. If you want people to settle down and behave respectably, let them get married. Then they build up equity, have something to protect and have a good chance of turning into Republicans! Now if only the Fundies would catch on . . .

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I'm hoping

(hoping so fucking hard)

That all of this recent anti-women legislation, Proposition 8, the gun reform fiasco...

I hope that it's just the dying struggles of an obsolete party.

This is a step in the right direction.

 

[MatthewVett]

The Republicans were unanimously in favor, too.

I know! It's a shame about that douchebag Metts. "I can change my sexual preference tonight if I want to, but I can't change my color." You can go gay tonight, just like that? Cuz if so, I have news for you, my friend, you already were.

 

[njlauren]

I know! It's a shame about that douchebag Metts. "I can change my sexual preference tonight if I want to, but I can't change my color." You can go gay tonight, just like that? Cuz if so, I have news for you, my friend, you already were.

I always love hearing blacks rant about gay marriage, how it is going to ruin marriage, how it is against God's will, etc.....I wonder if fuck face has ever bothered to really read the bible, and realize that the 80% of black kids born out of wedlock are the product of major sin......Kind of ironic that he would want to deny the legal right of marriage to same sex people while being oblivious to the disaster area that is marriage in the black community. People can give me all kinds of stuff about how it has its origins in slavery, how it destroyed black marriages, some of which I am sure is true, but maybe he would be better served trying to bolster marriage instead of trying to deny it...

As far as it being a choice, I have heard that crap from even very liberal blacks, and it is pathetic, to say the least. First of all, even assuming everyone was bisexual and could technically be attracted to either sex, no one chooses who they fall in love with, they just do, so someone who was truly bisexual might be attracted to either sex in theory, but fall in love with someone of the same sex. Obviously more people are wired strongly one way or the other, but the point is the same. We are supposedly a country framed on the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so even if it were a choice, what the hell does that have to do with anything? Because "De Bible" says so? Metts has to go watch a production of Porgy and Bess, and in the words of Sportin' Life

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.

 

[njlauren]

I always loved my dad, for someone born in the early 20's he often seemed on the right side of things......years ago, I mean like 30+ years ago, he said he saw no problem with gays marrying, if they wanted to suffer, too, god bless em, go ahead *lol*....I still don't understand how same sex marriage affects my marriage......or not. I have been married longer then most gay marriage opponents (hear that, Newty Boy and Rudy "family values' Guiliani (1 marriage annulled, divorced the second one on tv, and was screwing the third one while married to number 2..nice...). A lesbian couple I know feared gay marriage, but only because they knew gay guys would see what they wore to their wedding and make fun of it.....

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

From where I sit the whole issue boils down to official esteem for our faggots. Like inviting Disability Services to fill the NFL with its clients.

 

[NaokoSmith]

for Rhode Island!
Hooray!

(gay bananas )

 

[D_Lynn]

At last my chance to brag about something that has had me puffing out my chest for a week now...

My 18-year old heterosexual son informed me that he is no longer seeing his girlfriend. Apparently it came out in a conversation that she felt that homosexuality was a sin and gay marriage was wrong.

My son simply said to me, "Mom, I just can't date someone who even thinks that way. Being judgmental like that. It just wasn't how I was raised."

I thought to myself, Wow, he really was listening.

Way to go, RI, for being the little state that could.

 

[MatthewVett]

At last my chance to brag about something that has had me puffing out my chest for a week now...

My 18-year old heterosexual son informed me that he is no longer seeing his girlfriend. Apparently it came out in a conversation that she felt that homosexuality was a sin and gay marriage was wrong.

My son simply said to me, "Mom, I just can't date someone who even thinks that way. Being judgmental like that. It just wasn't how I was raised."

I thought to myself, Wow, he really was listening.

Way to go, RI, for being the little state that could.

You have an awesome son! Tell him the random man who writes smut is proud of him! Yeah, I can't imagine dating someone like that, either...

 

[RjThoughts]

Speaking from NY, where people said we'd be destroyed by God's wrath for having same sex marriages, RI don't worry about anything. You'll be fine.