BBC NEWS | Americas | Florida gays in marriage lawsuit This puts Brother Jeb in the spotlight again.

I just can’t believe this: Yahoo! News – Poll: Most Americans Oppose Gay Marriage

There is nothing good or joyful about this. Disgusting, shameful, and sad. I’m going to bed.

Another creative action by civil(ly disobedient) servants Oregon county bans all marriage: “It may seem odd,” Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell told Reuters in a telephone interview, but “we need to treat everyone in our county equally.” State Attorney General Hardy Myers said in a statement that he was “very pleased” with Benton County’s decision. “It is my sincere hope that the legal process will provide clarity for each of Oregon’s counties.” I just love it when government types use stuffy pol-speak to endorse tricky issues. Now come ON, Lane County, OSU is stealing a march. The home of the…

Yahoo! News – Church Jury Acquits Gay Methodist Pastor Put me in the “rejoicing” camp.

Two Setbacks for Advocates of Same-Sex Marriage BOSTON, March 11 — In near-simultaneous setbacks to advocates of same-sex marriage, Massachusetts legislators gave preliminary approval this afternoon to a state amendment banning gay marriages while the California Supreme Court ordered the City of San Francisco to halt gay marriages. Phooey. If Cook County decides to start issuing licenses, I happen to know that the Sparrow’s Nest thrift store recently received a shipment of one hundred wedding dresses. Come on, David Orr! Come on, Cook County! Time to step up to the plate. Think on the camp potential there, ladies and ladies…

Seen at Clack: Log Cabin Republicans challenge Bush on marriage The group’s move, which shatters the fragile alliance between the president and his strongest backers in the gay community, could undermine efforts to renew the “compassionate conservative” appeal he used four years ago. The ad shows Cheney in the 2000 vice presidential debate, saying of gay marriage: “People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. . . . That matter is regulated by the states. I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions, and that’s appropriate. I don’t think…

There’s always a local angle on national news: The Salt Lake Tribune — Boy Scout decision disappoints LDS Church. You know, if you’re going to support a an organization that discriminates against people, you’d better be prepared to pay for it yourself, rather than expecting subsidies from government or corporate entities that do not discriminate. Waaah, I say. Waaah, waaaah, waaah.

A friend passed this one along: “When marriage between gays was by rite” Boswell’s book, The Marriage of Likeness: Same Sex Unions in Pre- Modern Europe, lists in detail some same sex union ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. One Greek 13th century “Order for Solemnisation of Same Sex Union” having invoked St Serge and St Bacchus, called on God to “vouchsafe unto these thy servants [N and N] grace to love one another and to abide unhated and not a cause of scandal all the days of their lives, with the help of the Holy Mother of God…