I've heard some wacky reasons to keep them gosh darned gheys out of the military, but Roman rape tales? News to me and, apparently, to everyone else present.
Not me! I saw it in Sandman!
So... "Anyone married in a state where the marriage is valid, is married in the eyes of the federal government." And probably also in all other states in the union, but that I'm not sure about.
It reads to me like it's just federal -- filing for income tax and such. Can't expect the Democrats to be TOO progressive, now.
I had a friend pull the old "states' rights" argument on me back in college and say the federal government shouldn't force a state to recognize another state's marriage.
I pointedly responded that my aunt and uncle's interracial marriage would have been illegal in a whole lot of states 50 years ago.
(oh hi Sharkey.)
So lemme get it strai- er, am I getting this right? When you look at porn, your sexual drive "turns inwards." Which means you involve yourself in whatever fantasy the porn is facilitating. Since you involve yourself, and therefore your own same sex, that makes you gay regardless of the pornographic material or involved fantasy.
Jon Stewart said pretty much this. Good show.
I have to remember to never actually bring this up again
No, see, Yyler, this is an example of you starting a GOOD, CONSTRUCTIVE tangent in a conversation. That is the sort of thing you SHOULD be doing.
...anyway. As far as kids coming out in early puberty, that's good to hear; it's a tough fight right now but in the end progress always wins. I think a big part of it is an increase in positive gay role models in popular culture -- I'm not kidding when I say I think JK Rowling is going to have a real impact here. (I'm kinda of two minds on the whole "Oh, by the way, Dumbledore's gay" thing -- on the one hand, it kinda seems a copout that it's never actually stated in the books; he doesn't strike me as the type to be closeted and at any rate his more-than-friends affections for Grindelwald should have at least been suggested by Skeeter, but on the other hand the fact that it's just an afterthought, something that makes no difference to who he is as a character any more than Neville eventually marrying Hannah Abbott, serves to emphasize how trivial a distinction it really is in the scheme of things. Seems to me that the Brits are way ahead of us on this; I can think of several eps of Doctor Who that introduced LGBT characters and didn't make a big deal out of their sexuality. Course, the head writer for the past 4 seasons was the Queer as Folk guy, so that's to be expected.)