Bisbee Approves Civil Unions For Gay Couples; Defies Arizona Attorney General

[Kali]

small bit of progress for AZ

According to the Sierra Vista Herald, the Bisbee City Council approved the ordinance with a 5-2 vote after holding an emotional three-hour hearing attended by more than 100 people.

The former mining community-turned-artist's haven is made up of about 5,600 people.

Voters in 2008 approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual union.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne warned that the ordinance would be unconstitutional and promised to go to court to block its start. <snip>

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=14857&MediaType=1&Category=26#

the SV herald article here: http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2013/04/02/350490

[Ptah]

1. I will never understand the fear of freedom.

Bisbee rocks.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Though I've never been to San Francisco, I've always thought of Bisbee as a "Little S.F.".

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A relatively large LGBT community, very VERY art-friendly, a THRIVING restaurant scene... and
peopled with interesting, quirky folks. EXTREMELY laid back -- even more of a Blue Island in a
Red State Ocean than Tucson is -- much more.
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They also have a very popular, very well locally-support AA baseball team (Tucson did not
support the one they had and we lost it some years ago). AA baseball is even cooler than the
Major Leagues (IMneverHO). It's filled with face-diving Pete Roses hoping to be noticed by a
scout for the big boys.
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[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. I grew up in San Francisco but have not yet been to Bisbee. i'll let you know!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. What a funny state we live in! You can get gay married in Bisbee,

Get your "aura" photographed in Sedona, go to drinking liberally in Tucson and join a white supremicist group in Phoenix. Arizona reminds me of a Yakov Smirniov joke. He is holding a hot dog and says " In Russia, we don't eat this part of the dog!" don't ask me why the connection, I don't know, it's just that this state is so wierd.

[Ptah]

5. You forgot cotton farming.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. Huh? We have cotton pickers here?

[Ptah]

7. Marana is the home of the farmers that 'employed' the residents of Rillito.

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[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. Not familiar with this but you have taught me more about the area than my in laws

Who have lived here for decades. Our new home is in Marana so anything you can add will be appreciated.

[Ptah]

9. When my parents moved here in 1967, they were disappointed to find a clause.

They were forbidden to sell to people of color.

Rillito was the settlement for the laborers, mostly black.

That community was also the source for the athletic engine that was Marana High School.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. Jesus. Seriouslly?

Well, the times, they are a changing.

[Ptah]

11. Seriously

[Kali]

12. ranchers called those folks farmers

less overlap between cattle ranching and crop farming around here though many did raise hay as well as cattle and some did indeed farm and ranch. (but for some, especially the rough country cowboys, being called a farmer or having a strict farmer called a rancher was an insult)

[Ptah]

13. Sorry about that.

I've edited it.

[Kali]

14. awww!

I was mostly just teasing ya!

[former9thward]

15. Cotton is one of the five elements of the economy on the state seal.

Cattle, cotton, copper, citrus, and climate are all shown.