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If one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is.

New Mexico County begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Mer

Comments

[fairestcat]

Mind if I copy this into my journal? The news is wonderful and the linking it with the words from "Alice's Restaurant" is inspired!

With proper credit of course.

[jadelennox]

I think, me, that the war is long from over, maybe a decade or more from over. There'll be an amendment fight, and it will be long and it will be messy.

But the outcome is set. We've won, or we will have. For the first time in almost a decade, we've won something major, and important. God I feel good.

And Arlo sez:

We are making the news tonight
All over the world
Because we know that what we do is right
All over the world
Every body walking hand in hand
All over the world

[rhi]

::pleased:: ...tale of American blind justice... Nice to see we don't need the 8 by 10 color glossy photos just yet! Thanks for the *wonderful* news, Mer!

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

Arlo! ::goes all fangirly::

And the news is good too. I don't have much use for marriage personally, but I think/believe everybody who feels otherwise should be able to marry where they will.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Great news, classic post.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Heh! I used exactly that quotation to link to exactly that story on my favorite bulletin board. Synchronicity!

[glassslipper.livejournal.com]

Love the quote, always.

[gwynnega]

This makes me so happy. It's gonna be a fight, but the momentum of this is gonna be hard (impossible, I hope!) to stop.

[knotted-rose.livejournal.com]

Lovely news.

I live in a very small town in WY. Yesterday, saw two bumper stickers on the car in front of me. One:

In case of rapture, the car is yours!

Which didn't bother me, cause it's an attempt to be cute. The other?

Marriage = (stick figure of man) + (stick figure of woman)

It really is an uphill battle in places like my town. Where most of the good townsfolk figure they've never even met a gay person. (They probably have, but the person wasn't out because of the reaction they'd receive.) Gay? That's something that happens in the city.

::sigh::

Arlo

[ancientsavvy.livejournal.com]

Arlo Guthrie! I love that song and his others! :-)

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! It's started in *New Mexico*???????

I know these licenses aren't binding at the state level (at least not until Massachusetts gets into play) or at the federal level, but wow, as a burgeoning campaign of civil disobedience this is neat to watch.

It's quite exciting, actually. It wasn't nearly this exciting when we got gay marriage.