Today's Cultural Warfare Update

NY Times article on trends in Massachusetts weddings - the main point of the article is that lesbians get married at twice the rate of gay men, but also notes that marriage rights support in Massachusetts has risen dramatically since rights were extended to gayfolk;

Today's Family News in Focus;

Today's main Focus on the Family brodcast is about the Senate rules-change effort - mostly whinging about how mean and evil their opponents are and trying to destroy Christianity, with interspaced repeated plugs to call the Senate to demand an end to filibuster rules on judges;

Sen. John Kerry tells Massachusetts Democratic Party: don't endorse marriage rights;

Washington Times article about the Massachusetts Democratic Party's potential endorsement - they've picked up the scare-quotes around the word marriage, when referring to gayfolk;

Indiana congressman wants to exclude religious establishment cases from parts of the Civil Rights Attourney's Fees Act of 1976, making it harder for people to sue on religious establishment grounds;

Concerned Women for America demands, yet again, rules be changed on judicial filibusters.

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I brought one of these inside today - it's at the end of its flowering, but it'll still have a little flowering left to it, and then I can bring in another one, since, after all, none of them last that long regardless. ^_^

I have a lot of stuff I need to put on eBay. It's weird that selling things is so much easier than giving things away. As soon as money is involved, people answer your mail. Funny, that.