04/06/2005
Kansans vote to ban same-sex marriage. Court battles to follow.
Here! TV expands to 40 million households, unveils new programming slate.
Australian tourist sent to prison for two years in Fiji for having gay sex.
Gay-themed Bollywood film tests whether Indian audiences are ready.
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"Of course, its not about homosexuals at all. Attorney General Phill Kline calls it a "necessary reaction to activist courts."
The courts! The courts are the reason they needed to ban gay marriage, not gays? Apparently Kansas has been battling activist courts for a while now. They must be tired of teachers preaching judicial tolerance in the schools. There must be protests all the time at courthouses. I wonder if robes are considered immoral."
Posted by: chris | Apr 6, 2005 12:50:44 PM
On behalf of the other 29% of us in Kansas who voted against the ammendment, I would like to sincerely apologize for my fellow Kansans. The religious argument against the ammendment has appeared in the editorials and letters to the editors for weeks. Many ministers, even those in small towns like mine, actively spoke against it in their sermons. So, I'm sorry about it. Please forgive us.
P.S. Given that I witnessed a guy write "fag" on a school van's windshield at Braums last week (he used some sort of drink to do it), the ammendment's passing was not a surprise.
Posted by: raben | Apr 6, 2005 3:17:09 PM
To those Kansas who voted for the amendment: I really want to sit all of you down in a large room and lecture you on how to recognize a real issue and an issue that only divides and causes more hate. And how constitutions and amendments should work. Passing an unconstitutional amendment? I mean, honestly.
But I knew what I was getting into when I moved [back] to Kansas. It's not a surprise. I take comfort in knowing my friends painted rainbows on the "Protect Marriage" signs around Shawnee/Overland Park.
(And on a tangent: I haven't been to Braums in a long time. I guess they don't have them in this part of the state.)
Posted by: Ryan Zachary Hale | Apr 6, 2005 11:45:10 PM