Link collection...

[kyrielle]

...a variety of things that made me smile, all relating in some fashion to gay people, mostly having to do with the events in San Francisco, all gay-positive. Linking to the reply pages because some of these seem to be accumulating a lot of comments.

ladyjaida writes this lovely post of which I shall simply quote, "Just like that. People love each other just like that."

Volunteers in San Francisco:

jnala - read
danjite - read
rmjwell - read
wordweaverlynn - read

There's a lot, lot more than those four, many linked from the posts in question.

And finally, one smart remark from danjite that got me to giggle.

Okay, really finally, another giggle: marriages not stayed due to semicolon (brief LJ writeup, links to full news article).

Comments

[pelogrande.livejournal.com]

I heard a great little story about it on NPR the other night.

They were interviewing a pair of guys who were one of the first ten or fifteen to get married. They were up from LA, and right after they got married one of the officials deputized them to perform more ceremonies. They'd stayed three or four days longer and each performed about sixty marriages.

Thanks

[flower76.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this.

It made me sniffle. :)

[pheon.livejournal.com]

I am glad that so many couples were made happy.

But I have to say that I think this whole process by the mayor of San Francisco is going to do more to hurt> gay marriage than it can ever help.

First, I am uncomfortable with an elected official who does not have judicial authority declaring a law of the state unconstitutional and proceeding to ignore it.

Second, and more importantly, this is almost certainly going to rally the right-wing bigots around the constitutional amendment to define marriage as only between a man and a women, forcing it upon all the states.

[Of course, as a mostly libertarian, I don't think the government has any business regulating marriage at all. Any marriage between consenting adults should not be the government's concern. That includes gay marriage, polygamy, polyandry, line marriages, whatever. But there is a snowball's chance in hell of that ever coming about.]

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[kyrielle]

Point, on both counts. On the other hand, it will rally the anti-gay-marriage folks, but I think it will also rally pro-gay-marriage people - including some who might otherwise not have hoped.

I'm not sure yet if it's done more good or harm.