Daily Random Thoughts

[baxil]

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• 20:32 OH DEAR GODS YES. Our long national nightmare is finally over. Now to wait on tiptoe for the CA state results ... and then on to NaNoWriMo! #

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And...(sigh)...Prop 8 Passed

[natetg]

Linear approximation from Prop 22 (61% pass) to Prop 8 (55% pass) suggests that gay marriage will probably pass into law around 2016 or 2020 here in CA.

Re: And...(sigh)...Prop 8 Passed

[baxil]

Final election-night update shows 52.2-47.8. Hopefully by 2016 ...

p.s.

[baxil]

Huh - interesting. This argument was made before the election, and the numbers were almost exactly on the nose.

This is Quite Fast, Really

[natetg]

With that number, we could see the "ban" lifted by 2012 since constitutional amendments are easy in CA. On a more positive note, homosexual legal marriage looks inevitable in California.

N.B. I'm not sure that 'man' and 'woman' can really be defined all that well, considering the power of modern medicine and things like androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Re: This is Quite Fast, Really

[kinkyturtle]

I've been wondering about that. If this "one man, one woman" business is written into law, are churches and courthouses going to start doing genitalia checks on wedding couples? :}

Well...

[natetg]

There is natural gender-bending in humans:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/healthfitness/menshealth/part1_7-1.html

"... the presumed clitoris rapidly enlarges to become a penis and the 'labia' unfold to form a scrotum into which the testicles suddenly drop.

This defect is relatively common in a part of the Dominican Republic, where it is accepted as normal that a few of the little girls playing in the streets will grow up and turn into men..."

Hopefully nobody's getting married before age 12 though.