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Iowa Gay Marriage

This video has been making the rounds. It's worth a look.

Gainesville Gay Rights

I'm a little late on this because I don't live there anymore but Gainesville, Florida voters voted to keep an anti-discrimination law. The repeal of the law would have made it legal to fire and not hire workers based solely on the their sexual orientation. Nice job, Gators (and Gator haters).

The opponents of the law tried to claim they wanted to keep men out of women's restrooms because the law allows the transgendered to choose which bathroom to use.

So, bravo. Long Island Ice Teas from UC are on me.

Election Roundup

A bunch of states had a bunch of ballot measures. Here's some of the Good, Bad, and the Fugly.

Good
-Michigan allows medical marijuana.
-Washington allows assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
-California refuses to force doctors to notify parents of minors who want an abortion.
-Colorado rejects the premise that life begins at conception.

Bad
-Arkansas bans adoption and foster parenting by gay couples.
-California, Florida, and Arizona ban gay marriage.

Fugly
-Michelle Bachmann was somehow reelected to her Congressional seat after calling Obama anti-American on national television and then calling for media investigations into other potentially anti-American members of Congress.

NY to Recognize Out of State Same-Sex Marriages

Governor Patterson ordered state agencies to recognize out of state same-sex marriages as legal marriages in the state of New York. In a memo released earlier this month the Governor informed all state agencies that failure to recognize these marriages "could be subject to liability". Though the memo was released about two weeks ago, media attention was not given to the story until earlier this week.

Slowly but surely same-sex marriages will be recognized every where. It's just going to take a while.