Some times I’m so embarrassed that I live in Virginia. Despite our changing demographics and diversity, Virginia is still oh so very homophobic. In fact, Virginia is so homophobic it secretly thinks Maryland’s ass looks great in those jeans, but then has to purge the devil from it’s thoughts.
Congrats, Illinois!
Tell Janice Langbehn it’s not a critical issue, JerrySTL. Tell Dan Savage that it doesn’t matter whether marriage equality has legal recognition.
The nastiest part of marriage inequality is that, at the moments of a partnership where things ought to be at their worst, lack of legal recognition of that partnership enables assholes to make those final moments so much worse, and enables the state to act in a way that can bankrupt partners and break up families that would not happen if marriage equality is enshrined in law.
It’s easy to say “It’s not that big a deal” but every day that your daughter’s marriage isn’t recognized is another day where, should the worst happen, she and her wife could be legally prevented from seeing each other at a time when they need each other most. No one suffers from a delay in naming the Lesser Spotted Hoobler the state bird of Idaho. People suffer quite a lot when situations such as Janice Longbehn’s happen, and they’re suffering for no good reason. Better to get it done earlier rather than later.
Breathing is more important than eating, so as long as you breathe, you cannot eat, and while you eat, you have to hold your breath.
They’re state legislators, not state only-budget-guys. We send them to Springfield to tackle a variety of issues of varying levels of importance to individual citizens. Yesterday they finished handling a contentious issue that affects a lot of people, whether you personally are concerned about it or not. That’s what we send them to do.
This sounds borderline crazy to me. You are equating the right to marry, which includes everything from tax breaks to death benefits to the right to visit an ailing spouse in the hospital, with naming a state bird. Think about this.
Wow a 2-fer!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess you’re from down state and hate all the “liberals” in “Shit-Cago”
To add something related to the celebration thread, the first same-sex divorce is about to be settled in France. It happens that the couple had been married in the USA.
An international divorce tells a lot about the normalization of same-sex marriage.
I’m confused. Do we have to send every resident of Illinois a toaster, or do we just send one care of the state?
Congratulations to all those who will be legally wed as a result of this! Also, welcome to more equality! Soon enough equality will mean equality, and noticing more or less of it will seem odd.
You can’t work on the budget 100% of the time and this could well have seemed like welcome relief from a really painful job.
Having spent 4 years working in Ill, I amazed that they have a pension problem. The state pension of UI professors was pitiful, compared to what I get. And they don’t get social security since the state declines to participate and UI professors are considered state employees.
I am sure the budget problems would go away if the people allowed themselves to be taxed for the services they have demanded. Of course, keeping former governors in prison must add something to the state budget. (I believe that four of the last seven governors are in the clink.) When I was there, all the revenue from driver’s license went directly into the pocket of the secretary of the state (and you made out your check to him personally).
:dubious: The Secretary of State’s office has driver licenses/vehicle registration/etc. under its jurisdiction, rather than having a separate Department of Motor Vehicles. You make out the check to the SoS office, not to Jesse White.
And only one former governor is currently in prison, Rod Blagojevich. 4 of the last 7 went to prison, yes, but we’re talking governors going back to the 1960s, and the first two are long out; George Ryan got out in July.
Besides, I’d assume Blagojevich is in federal prison and thus on everyone’s dime. Even if he wasn’t, he’s incarcerated in Indiana.