Archive for the ‘Love’ Category
Welcome to married life
Posted in Food, Love, marriage on May 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I see what you’re doing there
Posted in Love, marriage, Photography on May 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t mess with her man Part II
Posted in Love, marriage, Sexuality, Whoredom on May 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Stop hogging all the vagina!
Posted in Crazy, Love, Media, Relationships, Sexuality on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t be messin’ with her man
Posted in Graffiti, Love, Relationships on May 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
How florists get a lot of their business
Posted in Love, Marketing, Relationships on May 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Even bad news seems better with cake
Posted in Food, Love, marriage, Relationships on April 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Took me a few seconds to get why this is funny
Posted in Advertising, Love, marriage, Relationships on April 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I feel an affinity for you
Posted in Animals, Love on April 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Love means learning to ignore much of what your partner/spouse says
Posted in Cartoons, Love, marriage, Relationships on April 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve heard of finding a stray hair or a pair of panties, but never this particular item
Posted in Entertainment, Love, marriage, Pop Culture on April 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Makes sense to me
Posted in Islam, Love, marriage, Photography on April 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Well, if you put it that way….
Posted in Love, marriage, Sexuality on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Find a market and target it
Posted in Advertising, Love, Relationships on April 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Who says romance is dead?
Posted in Advertising, Love, Relationships on March 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Can the Supreme Court move “too fast” on same-sex marriage?
Posted in Activism, Law Enforcement, Love, marriage on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
That question has been asked a great deal this week, usually in the context of Roe v. Wade and abortion. The thinking goes like this:
- Roe was decided before the American public was ready.
- The ruling divided the country and set up decades’ worth of abortion-related political battles.
- If the Supreme Court pushes too far and too fast on same-sex marriage, we could end up with the same battles as we have now for abortion.
- Therefore it would be better if the Supreme Court left same-sex marriage up to the states.
I’m not buying any of it, and neither are legal writers such as this one.
Roe is a terrible example because you are never going to convince people who think abortion is murder, no matter how long you might have waited to make abortion legal by judicial order. 
Not only that, but do you know how many women’s lives have been saved by not having to get back alley abortions? Women should not be forced to choose between having children they do not want and cannot afford, and unsafe illegal abortions.
Finally, the objections to abortion are, at their heart, really just religious objections fueled by Catholic and fundamentalist dogma that have no basis in science. Religion should never be used to make public policy about health care. Period.
Real, quantifiable harm has been prevented by Roe in such great numbers that the value of the ruling has far outweighed whatever political cost has been paid in fighting over it.
The same is true of same-sex marriage. I don’t care if some fundamentalists go apeshit over same-sex marriage. They shouldn’t have one then, and — contrary to the lies of the religious Right — none of their preachers will be forced to perform same-sex religious ceremonies. This is about civil, not religious, marriage.
Real, quantifiable harm is being done to couples and families who cannot get married. Ending that harm is far preferable to whatever fight might be put up by fundamentalist Christians and others who are on the wrong side of history anyway.
Since when has it ever been a good idea to put off expanding civil rights because the right-wing might work itself into a lather over that expansion? The right wing has ALWAYS worked itself up over civil rights expansions, no matter who has been the subject of that expansion. They did it over slavery. They did it over black civil rights. They did it over women’s rights. They are doing it over gay rights.
Big deal. Let ‘em scream. This debate is all smoke and mirrors anyway. They’re all dying out and the younger generation of conservatives will laugh at what a fuss their elders made over same-sex marriage.
It’s the thought that counts…
Posted in Domesticity, Love, Relationships on March 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Smells like redneck love
Posted in Love, marriage, Rednecks on March 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Weird engagement photos II
Posted in Love, marriage, Photography, WTF on March 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
You could have at least put your teeth in for the engagement photo
Posted in Love, marriage, Photography on March 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The bride-to-be looks EXACTLY like that mother from “Throw Momma From The Train” and “Goonies,” does she not?
Grumpy cat does have feelings
Posted in Love, Memes, tagged Grumpy Cat on March 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This one had me teary-eyed at work
Posted in LGBT, Love, marriage, Parenting on March 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
And I don’t get teary-eyed at work. It ruins my carefully crafted nonchalance. What an awesome story!
The sanctity of marriage
Posted in Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, LGBT, Love, marriage on March 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Very true
Posted in Love, marriage, Relationships on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
