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you know your nation is full of assholes when...
many states pass laws specifically barring gay marriage in a prodigeous hate-fest of holier-than-thou crap.
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SOUTH AFRICA, in a huge come-from-behind human rights victory passed a motion to legalize gay marriage. Just 16 years after apartheid and we got passed up. Ok, it's obviously different people in charge now than pre-1990, but I am still impressed at their ability to view everyone as equal in the eyes of the law, at least in terms of their right to marry.
Now, it seems to me that gay marriage will be that big thing in 20 or 30 years than noone can believe anyone ever had a problem with. Like, it seems preposterous now that interracial marriage was illegal in many states until fairly recently (60's I think). So I'm sure we'll come around eventually. But until then, it's very frustrating to see everyone trumpetting freedom and denying it to their own citizens.
Also on the list of "I can't believe we ever did that": corn syrup in EVERYTHING. Just wait for 10,000,000 type II diabetics to get a lawyer and a class-action case going. Hooooie. Drink it now. Get diabetes. Then cash in in a few years.
many states pass laws specifically barring gay marriage in a prodigeous hate-fest of holier-than-thou crap.
-and-
SOUTH AFRICA, in a huge come-from-behind human rights victory passed a motion to legalize gay marriage. Just 16 years after apartheid and we got passed up. Ok, it's obviously different people in charge now than pre-1990, but I am still impressed at their ability to view everyone as equal in the eyes of the law, at least in terms of their right to marry.
Now, it seems to me that gay marriage will be that big thing in 20 or 30 years than noone can believe anyone ever had a problem with. Like, it seems preposterous now that interracial marriage was illegal in many states until fairly recently (60's I think). So I'm sure we'll come around eventually. But until then, it's very frustrating to see everyone trumpetting freedom and denying it to their own citizens.
Also on the list of "I can't believe we ever did that": corn syrup in EVERYTHING. Just wait for 10,000,000 type II diabetics to get a lawyer and a class-action case going. Hooooie. Drink it now. Get diabetes. Then cash in in a few years.