...Facebook surprises me with three posts from three separate entities heralding good news for same-sex couples.
1. Project 515 (and later OutFront MN and Unfundamentalist Christians) shared Freedom to Marry's photo announcing that the British House of Commons had approved the freedom to marry, and by a wide margin. Still has to go to the House of Lords, but still. That's a big deal.
2. Believe Out Loud shared an article about how the Pentagon is extending some benefits to same-sex spouses.
3. Unfundamentalist Christians shared an article about how Duff from Ace of Cakes is going to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple who were refused service by their local bakery.
The tide has turned. Sooner rather than later, the objections to same-sex relationships on religious grounds are going to sound as silly, stupid, and hateful as the thing I read the other night on my Nook: an ad at the end of Anne of Green Gables, presumably by the publisher, for another title called The Call of the South, by Robert Lee Dunham, for $1.50. "A very strong novel dealing with the race problem in this country. The principal theme is the danger to society from the increasing miscegenation of the black and white races, and the encouragement it receives in the social amenities extended to negroes of distinction by persons prominent in politics, philanthropy and educational endeavor; and the author, a Southern lawyer, hopes to call the attention of the whole country to the need of earnest work toward its discouragement." Yeeeah. It goes on, but you get the idea. Ugliness. My generation's not buying it, either. In my state, which recently defeated a ballot measure for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (which was already not allowed, but whatever), is now in the process of legalizing same-sex marriage as well. Love wins.
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