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Happy Father’s Day!  I am happy to report that Norway legalized same sex-marriage on June 12th, making it the sixth country in the world in which same-sex couples may legally wed.  To review, the other five countries are: Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Spain.  This is a great triumph for same-sex Norwegian couples; I am overjoyed that it passed by a two-thirds margin in Parliament!  Now it’s time for the United States to step up.

Meanwhile, in Britain, the Anglican Church [you know, the one founded by Henry VIII, godly wife-killer extraordinaire, to get around Catholicism’s ban on divorce] is performing an “investigation” into a “wedding-like” ceremony that took place between two [male, because of course women are banned] priests. 

It still makes me shake my head to think how angry and riled-up some heterosexual people get at the thought of other people living their own lives and being happy.  I was reading the Sacramento Bee a few Sundays ago and there was a section on people’s reactions to the CA Supreme Court’s ruling.  It was definitely a mixed bag, which is quite in line with the field poll showing people divided down the middle, 51% supporting same-sex marriage.  There were the letters making parallels between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage as well as letters speaking about “perversion”.  When will people figure out that forcing their brand of morality onto others is not what the Constitution is supposed to be about?  It doesn’t matter if their deity hates me and cries when he/she/it thinks about me having sex as he/she/it obsessively peers into my window.  It’s about equal protection under the laws.

Sometimes, at the end of the day, I think, wouldn’t it just be lovely to move to Norway?  But I know I have to fight this fight.  We all do.

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