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The case for allowing gays to marry begins with equality, pure and simple. Why should one set of loving, consenting adults be denied a right that other such adults have and which, if exercised, will do no damage to anyone else? Not just because they have always lacked that right in the past, for sure: until the late 1960s, in some American states it was illegal for black adults to marry white ones, but precious few would defend that ban now on grounds that it was "traditional".

For such a stodgy British newsweekly, the Economist surprises me. A lot. Like when the cover of their issue about the WTO talks in Cancun featured a cactus in the shape of a hand flipping the bird. Like now.

I think I like the British brand of economic conservatism much more than the American moralistic strain. I don't agree with it, but at least I can respect it.

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does anyone else find it discomfitting/disconcerting that the bush administration have underwritten and promoted a coup d'etat against aristide in haiti?

Once again, does anybody really care what celebrities think? Aristide looked at the rebels about to storm Port-au-Prince and he fled for his life. The people discussing Aristide's leaving on NPR were absolutely befuddled that this was even being kicked around as a possiblity. To cast his leaving as part of a U.S. coup is ridiculous.

Why do I even bother?

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*quirks eyebrow*

Well then. I am tempted to send this link to the voter registration project at my school and show them what exactly they're up against. And then maybe they'll suicide in despair so I won't feel guilty about not helping them when I signed up in a burst of ill-considered idealism.

Can you tell I'm trying to avoid doing homework?

"People in homosexuality are incredibly evangelical," he adds, sounding evangelical himself. "It's pure sexuality. It's almost like pure heroin."

Hey Adrienne! You're like smack! No wonder I always want you in me. *snerf*

Another choice quote:
"Martial sex tends toward the boring end," he points out. "Generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does."

Uh, dude? Just because your sex life sucks and you've never found women sexually satisfying because you want to fuck men doesn't mean mine does. I love it when people generalize their experiences onto everybody else's, really.

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Multnomah County to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses tomorrow

Holy shit. Oh my goodness. This is wonderful beyond words. I'm going to buy flowers and pass them out on Friday. (We curses you, work. We curses you forever!)

Now please please please say thank you to Commissioner Linn.