And now for something completely different

[ciroccoj]

Taking a mental break from a rather depressing day, this was somewhat cheery news(for me, anyway):

• Federal Marriage Amendment defeated by a vote of 48-50
  
• Vote Summary
  

Also: Queer As Folk (US) this week was cute. The show is actually filmed in Toronto, but set in Pittsburgh. So the storyline this week was that the GLBT community of Pittsburgh does the "Liberty Ride", a bicycling fundraiser to raise money for Liberty House, an AIDS hospice in Pittsburgh. And the ride starts in Toronto (no idea why). So Our Heroes all get into big yellow schoolbuses, and end up wandering around Toronto's gay ghetto.

One of them reads from a pamphlet "...no visit to Toronto is complete without a stop at Church and Wellesley, the centre of Toronto's thriving gay community." They all look around.

"Is it just me," someone says, "Or does this look a lot like..."
"Liberty Street?" chimes in everyone else (the centre of Pittsburgh's thriving gay community).

Later, they end up in a famous Toronto gay bar. "Is it just me, or does this look a lot like-"
"Woody's?" chimes in everyone else (the 'famous' gay bar in QAF's Pittsburgh).


Hee. I am easily amused :)

Comments

[a-dawn.livejournal.com]

I thoughht QAF this week was super cute too!

[(Anonymous)]

I can't help but think that the whole question of legalizing same sex marriage boils down to many of the same issues that the question of abolishing slavery did. In other words, an uneasy mix of the social, the moral and the monetary.

Personally I was very disappointed that neither Kerry nor Edwards chose to vote.

Wimps!

(daf9 btw, without her password)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think that the whole question of legalizing same sex marriage boils down to many of the same issues that the question of abolishing slavery did.

Many of the 'anti' arguments are also remarkably similar to the old arguments against interracial marriage. It's abnormal and sick, it'll destroy society, think of the children, the Bible says it's evil... I can only hope that some day many of the anti-gay marriage rants sound as quaint and bizarre as the anti-interacial marriage rants do now.

Then again, there are plenty of people around who still think interracial marriage is singlehandedly destroying all that is good and pure in the world, so...

Personally I was very disappointed that neither Kerry nor Edwards chose to vote.

No kidding.