Here in Santorum Land...

[No Mandate Here.]

local Clerks of Court have been issued some new signs...

Thanks, Rick. Institutionalized discrimination, anyone?

Perhaps the cropping must have cut his signature out of the photo.

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[xchrom]

1. that sign seems to suggest you can marry yourself.

[Joy Anne]

3. marrying yourself in Pennsylvania

You can marry yourselves in Pennsylvania without any officiant. That's what my husband and I did. We just needed to get a special form, in addition to the usual marriage license.

[terrya]

2. What about one man and a lovely Cross pen?

I'm in love with my Cross pen I have here at work. Will Rick allow me to marry my pen?

Just wondering...since, fuckface Santorum seems to have set himself up as the arbiter of who can marry and who can't.

[LynneSin]

4. First Box Turtles and now lovely cross pens

Have you no decency for us god-fearing Christians who post here at DU. Next thing I'll hear is you and my cat Abbott want to elope to Las Vegas



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:loveya:

[terrya]

5. What can I say....I have to marry, Lynne. It's like a drug.

I just...have to. Anything, anyone...no matter what species.

:loveya:

[Mara Steele]

6. HA HA!!

My 1st big laugh of the morning.... :yourock: :hi:

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. I've never been more ashamed to be a former Pittsburgher

Than I am with that fuckwad representing my hometown and
state. :grr:

[tigereye]

11. think how embarrassing it is to still live here

and have to contend with Mr. Intolerance, Rick as your Senator. :(

Please god, let the dems run someone who can beat him next time!

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. I went to the Constitution Center in Philly earlier this week.

In it there is a section in which you can express opinions on various hot-button legal issues of the day. I am distressed to announce that visitors to the center that day were overwhelmingly in favor of the Gay Marriage amendment.

I tried to cheer myself up by remembering that we currently live in a society that is at least talking about this.... :-(

[terrya]

9. Amendments can be repealed, Finn.

We're NOT giving up on this. And if some people think we're going to go meekly back in the closets over this, they're seriously deluded.

Gay marriage...and the discussion...is here to say. Look at the recent ruling in Washington state. A judge there ruled that same sex marriages should be legal...subject to review by the Washington state supreme court.

I keep saying it...gay marriage WILL become legal. It will be a battle and it won't happen tomorrow or anytime soon. But it WILL happen. Simple as that. :-)

[No Mandate Here.]

12. If I am not mistaken, a LOT of democracy (small d)

has to happen before an amendment becomes law. Remember the ERA? If I recall correctly, it passed and was sent to the states, and after about seven years, the last of the states voted on it and it was not passed. I see by this very nice (?) sign that 38 states already define marriage, might it be possible to mount a campaign that says... "it isn't broken- why fix it?'

If we succeed in keeping this off the ballot and/or defeating it in 17 states, it isn't possible to amend the Constitution.

I guess my main point is that this battle shouldn't be considered over if the Senate passes the bill. Is this correct?

[terrya]

13. Oh, no. It's not over...not by a long shot.

Frist and the FMA supporters have already promised to bring FMA up again in the next session.

IF the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment gets out of Congress, it would go to the states, 38 states needed for passage.

[No Mandate Here.]

14. We agree completely

if we can get enough people to reason that there is no need, as a lot of states already have laws that address this, then we may be able to see fewer votes in favor of this discrimination.

Then, as the tides turn, (and I think we are about to enter another period of social liberalism, like the sixties) we can address the state laws one by one.

Besides, Frist won't be majority leader next year, Daschle will. (wouldn't that be nice?)

[The Spirit of JFK]

10. Can the Steelers and Eagles players still pat each other's ass...

after a nice play?


Or can they only do it at away games?