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A Great Day

June 15, 2007 on 12:22 am | In Joys and Concerns |

Hey lovely people,
Thanks for all your anniversary wishes.
I am heading off to bed after an amazing day at the Constitutional Convention at the State House, where marriage equality was protected by a legislative vote and I was right in the midst of the mayhem.

I have a lot to say about it — especially to report about the ridiculous, comically ignorant behavior and signs exhibited by our opponents — and I have photos to share. But that will have to wait. Let me just tell you that it was really quite unbelievable. Signs that said things like, “Even animals don’t do that!!” (speaking of homosexual sex). I’m absolutely baffled by this. They have obviously never met my sister’s dog Gordon, who, not to put too fine a point on it, genially climbs aboard his friend Clay’s backside and makes like Elvis-the-Pelvis whenever they have a play date. Sorry, folks, the animal kingdom is full of all kinds of same-sex couplings. And how about parthenogenesis? Since ya’ll are in such a froth about same-sex couples defying God’s law by having children, how do fruit flies fit into your scheme of things? Are they also defying God’s Great Heterosexual Universe?

Ach. It’s maddening. I was so sure we would lose this vote that I had a raging commentary about how if the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is so hot on the sanctity of marriage we should pursue legislation outlawing divorce. Let that go to a public vote, by gum. Oh, I was so ready. I am so elated I didn’t have to give that remark to a reporter, and could instead say how thrilled I was.

Right now, I have to help the cat simmer down as she seems to think there’s either a mouse or a magical stash of catnip under the living room couch, and is going crazy not being able to scootch her body underneath it to check.

Photo by photographer and community activist Jonathan McIntosh, taken on 11/06.