Such a Gay Day
- This is the International Day Against Homophobia; I like the fact that it's referred to as "IDAHO", a name not usually associated with diversity. Speaking of IDAHO, I just learned in my reading today about the origins of the Russet-Burbank variety of potato.
- This is also the day when marriage equality arrived in Massachusetts, six years ago. It leaves me wondering just how long it takes for the sky to fall and for civilization to collapse. Perhaps it depends on how big the state is.
- Odd. The Hawaii Legislature passed a bill establishing civil marriage, equally accessible to all, gay and straight alike. That's not so odd. The governor of Hawaii says that when she reads it, it sounds like the equivalent of "marriage" but without the word "marriage". What's odd is the number of opponents of marriage equality who fretfully plead "Please, please, give the gays anything but don't call it 'marriage'!"
- Poor Elena Kagan: she played softball and her haircut is butch. I think all those straight Republican men keep demanding to know her L-status because they're turned on by the idea of hot justice-on-justice action.
- George Rekers: the ultra-closeted homophobe gift who keeps on giving. How many more conservative policies and idées fixes can he thoroughly discredit before he finally shuts up? He's been even more useful as a gay-equality spokesperson than Ted Haggard or Carrie Prejean.
- I say, isn't that James Inhofe a card for insisting that the congress shouldn't repeal DADT because soldiers won't fight for the guy in the next foxhole if they know he's gay? Aside from the fact that foxholes are not really current warfaring technology and that the Freudian symbolism might not be what he was looking for, I think this rather insults the presumed motivations and integrity of America's service members.