http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/12/01/gays_coming_to_your_town Comments On: Gays: Coming To Your Town by Sarah Mirk en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:30:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
My uncle and his husband (I can't view them any other way) were among the first couples to register for the town's "Couples Registry," and my grandmother had plans to register with her boyfriend, who sadly passed away before it was available. Eureka Springs is actually a very cool, weird little Victorian town, and everyone is thrilled that the "Christians" are dwindling in their bigoted presence. It's one of those remarkable deep-blue progressive islands in the vast wasteland of ignorance and complicity and even hatred I left behind in the South.

Until Bryan and Jim can have legal rights of union, I will never marry. And I hope that the cultural/religious institution of marriage and the legal institution of civil union rights can be "unwed" from one another, so that those who use "they want to change marriage!" and the implicit threat that churches will be forced to "marry" gays can't be used to continue creating second-class citizens and unequal civil rights.
Posted by Ian]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:45:24 -0800 Portland Mercury
hahahaha

Posted by Lucky]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:53:04 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Will Radik]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:17:01 -0800 Portland Mercury