I guess when I say "same-sex marriage is going to the Supreme Court" I really mean shit like the Defense of Marriage Act is due for a judicial challenge. It's total bullshit that states recognize each other's opposite-sex marriages, regardless of their differences in marriage laws, but not same-sex marriages. So then we get a whole host of second-tier "I can't believe it's not marriage" contracts that are even harder to enforce across state lines because the rights and privileges they grant are even more nonstandardized, and to make matters even worse, the ICBINM arrangements are almost invariably exclusively same-sex, as if to rub in the fact that these are second-class unions created to sidestep the same-sex marriage issue. Snarkity snark snark snark, preaching to the choir, blah de blah.
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Date: 2004-02-13 04:00 am (UTC)