An unnerving email...
From: S.B.
To: L.G.
Subject: statement of an evil man

In a statement, President Bush said he had called on the Congress "to pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife".

"The need for that amendment is still urgent, and I repeat that call today."


I'm not linking to that though. It's too negative. Read this instead:

MSNBC - Gay couples exchange vows in Massachusetts

It's really happy and positive, except for the part when completely ignorant people are quoted, like this:

Ray McNulty, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Family Institute, one of the leading organizers of opposition to same-sex marriage, criticized some of the protesters, saying there was no need for hateful speech.

"What's going on down there is legal, and as far as I'm concerned, give those people their happiness for the day," McNulty said.

Yeah! Let "those people" have their happiness for the day." All humans, being created equal and all, should be happy for at least one goddamn day, seeing as though this asshole sees that it's "legal, as far as [he's] concerned".

Seriously, I wish that something really uplifting and positive would happen in the world, without some kind of horrible backlash that looms over like a big evil shroud. It's like someone finding the cure for cancer and then a nuclear war is started over who has access to it. It makes me sick.
- posted by liz @ 5/17/2004 03:23:00 PM