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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 09:34am on 07/04/2009
Yay for the first state legislature to pass marriage equality! I'm especially pleased about this because, as I said to CP, it proves that incrementalism works. 9 years ago, the majority of the people and legislators of Vermont were extremely unhappy with their Supreme Court's decision to mandate civil unions. Now well, the state hasn't collapsed morally, it's gotten a lot of extra tourism (some of it from our wedding, _because_ of being a civil-union state), and folks have gotten used to their married gay and lesbian neighbors. And so now the last step can be taken - and it's really hard to complain about "a few activist judges" when the legislature passed it by votes of 25-3 and 100-49.

In largely random celebration, here's a crossover fanfic that shouldn't work nearly as well as it does: "A Death in Bohemia": Sayers/Buffyverse crossover. Rest assured, there are no inappropriate or bizarre relationships, but some quite good and appropriate dialogue - and you could see this happening so very easily. This is especially for [livejournal.com profile] hca, whose game last weekend I was sorry to have missed.

And here is a joyously happy Youtube video featuring the Antwerp train station, and, um, music. Totally SFW, although requires sound - make sure to watch past 2:18.

Also, in More Reasons Why I Love Our President, he made the following comment yesterday in Turkey: "One of the great strengths of the United States," "is that while we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."

I want to have American ideals again!
Mood:: 'happy' happy
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posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 04:37pm on 07/04/2009
Yay for Vermont!
 
posted by [identity profile] foldedfish.livejournal.com at 04:51pm on 07/04/2009
Indeed, consider my concerns about "activist judges" griping alleviated. Yay!
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 04:55pm on 07/04/2009
I'm not saying those concerns weren't reasonable, but between Iowa and Vermont, there's a nice counter to them. And both leaders of the Iowa legislature have now said, "yeah, we don't really feel like debating an anti-marriage equality amendment; we've got an economy to fix," which means that the earliest it could be on the general Iowa ballot is 2014. Which, conveniently, is about the right amount of time for Iowans to get used to the idea.
 
posted by [identity profile] foldedfish.livejournal.com at 05:01pm on 07/04/2009
Indeed. I'm hoping that IA goes the way MA did: by the time an amendment becomes permissible, everyone will have realized that the world failed to end after all, and the coals will have cooled.
 
posted by [identity profile] hca.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 09/04/2009
Thank you, so very much. That was sixteen different kinds of delightful. The tone is right and the premise is ridiculous and yet I buy it - perfect fanfic!
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 10:53pm on 09/04/2009
You're welcome; that was very much my reaction. Not something remotely plausible - but if it could have happened, this is the way that it would have.

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