Our gay weddings, cont’d.
Betsy, whose whim is law, leads us off into more good discussion of the hows and whys of the county’s decision to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples, and all I have time for this morning is to fling you a couple of links and hope for the best: be sure to check out this post at Jack Bog’s Blog, which features a comments-thread debate between the proprietor and Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard. —The most interesting bit of news we learned this morning (via the One True b!X): Oregon Public Broadcasting reported on 25 February that the county was to consider the issue of same-sex marriage; the (rest of the) media and various opponents to the action look even more silly, now, claiming to have been blindsided by the Multnomah Four.
(Note to self: beef up the local links in the linchinography yonder.)
update— Thank you, Allen Brill! The good reverend has posted a link I’d seen and lost, to this post by Chuck Currie proving such Oregonian headlines as “Pastors unite in opposition” to be a load of shameless bullshit. (Don’t miss Brill’s other posts highlighting Christians, progressive and conservative, who are speaking out against the bigotry of the Federal Marriage Amendment and its various state-level clones and doppelgängers.)
I gotta say I'm pleasantly surprised by Leonard on this. Gee. He's still a rat bastard for trying to sideline the neighborhood system he's in charge of, but it's nice to see him on what I think of as the right side of this one.
Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage without Public Meetings in Oregon
There was some interesting debate about the process by which same-sex marriage was legalized here in Portland, Oregon. Jack Bog objected to the process, leading to an interesting debate in the comments (including some comments by local politico Randy L...