I’m not as worried as most proponents of gay marriage are following yesterday’s Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. I’m too lazy to look it up, but I think a gay marriage ban was shot down in some southwest state during the midterms. And if Massachusetts residents (what are we called anyway, besides Massholes?) can’t be as enlightened as New Mexico or Arizona, than Rhode Island should just annex the whole state. I propose this new state should be called Big Ass Rhodie.
Even if the ban makes it to the ballot and is approved by the voters, it will be repealed within a generation. A huge majority of people in Massachusetts under 40 aren’t homophobic assholes. The same probably can’t be said for bastions of regression in the South. I realize this is very easy for me to say as a straight guy, but if I tried to say it as a gay guy, it would be in an offensive mincing voice.
At least quit with the sourpusses for a few days and enjoy Deval Patrick’s inauguration and Mitt Romney’s rapid descent into irrelevance. Who would’ve thought a Gloomy Gus like me would be saying something like that?
January 4th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I’d move to Big Ass Rhodie. At its current size, however, Rhode Island only looks to me like Weird Ass Rhodie. I’m staying away until it expands.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Rhode Island’s tourism board is going to send you a nasty letter for that kind of defamation.