NOT civil union, NOT domestic partnership, but full-on marriage with all the same rights & priveleges applied to heterosexual marriage. This comes just hours ago, when the California State Supreme Court voted 4-3 to grant gay couples the right to marry. They declared existing marriage laws, defining marriage as only one between one man & one ( Read more... )

(Gang: please either cross-post this if you are so inclined, or write up your own post encouraging donation of some sort. Lots of you have BIG f-lists. Thankee! -E.)While we have our everyday lives goin' on up here, parts of the world are seeing apocalyptic weather that's tearing their respective countries in half ( Read more... )