Is it voting? Because if it’s not, and you live in Iowa, you’re letting these people run the judicial branch. I know they look nice, but they are complete pricks. Consider: the pleasant young couple above chose to make their wedding, the symbol of their love, a symbol of their opposition to other people’s love. Was your wedding a public celebration of your commitment to letting gay dudes and lesbians marry one another? Therein lies the problem. Even though many of us—maybe even most of us—either support gay marriage or don’t care enough either way to try to make a law about it, the small number of us who have been commanded by a 6,000 year-old book* to stop gay people everywhere we can find them are way, way more fired up. Case in point: Bob Vander Plaats, who since losing his bid for governor has organized a statewide campaign to recall Iowa Supreme Court Justices for their decision in Varnum v Brien.
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Cultural synergy watch: marriage
By now you have probably heard from the most overweight person at your place of employment that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are disengaged again. I don’t want to make any judgments,* but it seems like Levi may be responsible for this one, given that A) he confessed that he “may have” conceived a child with another woman and B) according to Bristol, he recently flew “to Hollywood for what he told me was to see some hunting show but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family.” Tactical error, homey. It’s possible, amid the stress that followed impregnating the governor’s daughter immediately before her mom entered a national presidential election, Levi Johnston was not thinking clearly. In that mental state, the decision to get married might not have been wisely considered. Of course, within a broader paradigm, it probably made perfect sense.