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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
11/12/08

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Yes, we in CT are trying, through legitimate liberal practices, to make up for this whole Lieberman thing...

All the same, I'm really proud of my home state! First marriage application is happening today at 2 p.m. in West Hartford, just for anyone who wants to support.
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LaComtesse
11/12/08

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*sigh* So so proud of my fabulous homestate! I've been proud of us on this issue ever since we said we would recognize ANY marriage performed in MA.

So thanks to the liberal Connecticutians, as well as the prudish, uptight WASPs who set characteristically do not speak openly about things that upset them... If every opponent of gay marriage would just take the CT route and keep your bigotry to yourself, the world would be a freer place...
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Brigit
11/12/08

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*waves hand frantically* Governor Patterson, it's our turn! You're gonna let two other states outdo New York?

We are so not winning this year's Fake American East Coast Liberal Elitists Awards. Bad form gov, bad form.
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hellosunshine
11/12/08

@Brigit: I know, right? Let's get on this, New York!
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thelawschooldropout
11/12/08

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I love this. Such good news.

Also, in related news, my girlfriend just asked me to marry her (actually months ago, but still I like to stick it in conversation whenever possible)!
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/12/08

@thelawschooldropout: Congratulations!
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hello.kitty
11/12/08

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Oh and hooray that we said no to a Constitutional Convention (Question 1) which was put forth by 'folks'('real' Connecticutters?) who were looking for a back door to ban gay marriage via a Constitutional amendment.
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doctorsnowy
11/12/08

@hello.kitty: This was so bad because it was really tricky language. A lot of people didn't know what it meant. I told my dad to vote no and he was like oh I was so confused if it was good or bad and my dad is a pretty suave guy and politically aware. The people at CTVoteno.org and Love Makes A Family saved the day for all Connecticut voters.
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hello.kitty
11/12/08

@doctorsnowy: Yes, at first glance I thought, hey why not. Then someone told me to check the LWV of CT site. I likes bein' edumacated.
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Ptarmigan
11/12/08

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I love watching the religious nut jobs talk about this subject on the tevee. Especially when they use their favorite argument/talking point of, well if we allow gay marriage, what's next, people marrying dogs? Beastaility? YES!!!! Of course that would be the repercussion of gay marriage! People would indeed start shacking up with animals if we allow gay couples to marry their partners. I am sure that beastaility has run amuck in Massachusetts and Connecticut already!
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/12/08

@Ptarmigan: Well, we were considering adding a kitteh to the family once more. We're a bunch of perverts.
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lalaland13
11/12/08

@Ptarmigan: It's really great when red states have the second-highest divorce rate in the country. Hear me, Arkansas?
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hello.kitty
11/12/08

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Ah, proud to be a Nutmegger today!
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RisaPlata
11/12/08

@hello.kitty: Isn't Connecticut the Constitution State? I don't know where this nutmeg thing came from.
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RisaPlata
11/12/08

@RisaPlata: That sounded bitchy instead of genuinely curious, which it was. Genuinely curious.
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
11/12/08

@RisaPlata: according to Wikipedia, we're also the Provision State and The Land of Steady Habits. steady habits ftw!
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
11/12/08

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I have a dream that one day Virginia (both fake and real) will get on the logic bandwagon and make things happen. One day, Virginia, one day.

(Today is going to be a good day: asked the father to look over my research paper on America's falling literacy scores, he went off about Islamic extremists. I should start recording this stuff.)
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pantsless economist...access RESTORED
11/12/08

@tonightineed thinks rahm is nom: Me too--despite that nasty amendment from 2006, I think and hope we can get on the logic bandwagon. ESPECIALLY since we now have 2 Dem Senators, a blue majority of House Reps (if Perreillo wins and I'm calling it...), a Dem governor, AND we voted for a Democratic black guy for president. Just typing all that out kinda made me swoon. :)

Virginia Republicans with the notable exception of John Warner make the state look really, really bad, and I think Virginians, both real and fake, are starting to get that, and electing moderate Democrats instead.

Wouldn't it set a great example for everyone else if Virginia of all states allowed gay marriage? :D
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
11/12/08

@pantsless economist: I agree, regarding electing moderate democrats showing that we're not all as crazy conservative as the rest of the state would like us to be.

I was so happy to see that they finally called it for Nye. I saw him at the Obama rally at Harbor Park (Norfolk) and I thought he was very well spoken. Mark Warner just makes me happy all over, and Bobby Scott is obviously doing a decent job as he continues to run unopposed. For my first year voting, I think I had a great ticket to choose from on all counts.

If Virginia would legalize gay marriage, I would be so incandescently proud of my state. I think my parents would move to Carolina, but just as well. It makes me so sad to think that people aren't able to live their lives to the fullest here, assuming they desire the legal recognition of marriage.

Virginia is for lovers, right? Not just straight lovers, not just lovers within a god approved context, but all lovers. Bring it on.
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morninggloria
11/12/08

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Connecticut, you confuse me. Gay marriage, and yet, Joe Lieberman. Yale, and yet, New Haven.
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Joyce Carol Hall and Oates
11/12/08

@morninggloria: I once ran into Joe Lieberman in an Urban Outfitters in New Haven right near the Yale campus. Tell me if that doesn't make your head explode.
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pantsless economist...access RESTORED
11/12/08

@Joyce_Carol_Hall_and_Oates: But was he looking for boho chic furnishings for his office, or overpriced t-shirts and skinny jeans? More importantly, why wasn't he at Anthropologie instead? Did he take that big of a hit from his campaign donors?

And was he jealous that in addition to getting the VP pick from McCain, Sarah Palin got to shop at Neiman Marcus?
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beepbeepboop
11/12/08

@pantsless economist: New Haven doesn't get an Anthropologie only Westport, South Windsor, and Greenwich do. Is it possible that the Yalies would not be able to support a store?

but yeah, New Haven is strange. I moved here after college because my boyfriend had a job here and it sometimes seems like we're the only twenty-somethings who aren't Yale students. Not that I really mind people thinking I'm a lot smarter and motivated than I really am and go to Yale.
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belle TL
11/12/08

@radiomayonnaise: Woo! Another non-Yalie New Havenite here (but my husband is a grad student there). Seriously, it's kind of bizarre, but I can't fault it too much because I have delicious wings around the corner from me.
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alouette
11/12/08

@bellethellama: I make 3! I go to another school here and all the time I'm asked for my Yale ID for such-and-such discount. Then they turn me down. We were your sister school for 50 years dammit! Give me your discount!!

This doesn't mean I don't take full advantage of Yale transit.
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NefariousNewt
11/12/08

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As they were saying on NPR this morning, now that CT has allowed this, expect and influx of people from NY taking advantage of it. I think between CT and MA, and NY following along close behind, New England and the Northeast are once more leading the revolution.
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kelsium
11/12/08

@NefariousNewt, Serving at the Pleasure of the President-Ele...: I wouldn't be surprised to see NY follow. I think the Ithaca-50 case is still working its way up to the state supreme court, and that will probably tip the balance.
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angelheadedhipster
11/12/08

@kelsium: Goodness knows Paterson is chomping at the bit to get it. He's gotten passed just about everything BUT marriage already, which is super refreshing to see in an elected official.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
11/12/08

@NefariousNewt, Serving at the Pleasure of the President-Ele...: Team Fake America!
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Spot.Collins (the new soyvey)
11/12/08

@kelsium: I went to Ithaca College!! I miss that town so much, all the crazy liberal hippie tree-huggers, smokin' the weed in the middle of town during the day. I guess I work in Mass. now so I still have my exposure to the anti-american underbelly of society.
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Brigit
11/12/08

@kelsium: what is this Ithaca-50? I'm a transient Ithacan...
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hello.kitty
11/12/08

@SoyVey: Ah Ithaca. Do you miss Moosewood? The yummy farmer's market? My family returns there each summer.
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
11/12/08

@NefariousNewt, Serving at the Pleasure of the President-Ele...: I've been saying it...we should secede!
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BabyJane
11/12/08

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WooHoo Massachusetts!

Now if you would just fix the roads so I stop hitting potholes and abolish the Turnpike Authority so I can stop paying through the nose every time I drive into Boston you'll be almost perfect.
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kelsium
11/12/08

@BabyJane: Jesu cristo! Can we have a moment for the Boston toll? My boyfriend lives in the curvy street death trap that is the area between Fenway and Back Bay and I almost ALWAYS get confused when driving to visit him and have to leave the city and try again and I end up paying that stupid toll TWICE. AUGH! /end rant
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BabyJane
11/12/08

@kelsium: Ha! A kindred spirit!
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NefariousNewt
11/12/08

@kelsium: Yeah, the area around Fenway is a nightmare, especially with the construction they are still doing! Really, if you don't live around there, you will get lost every time. Heck, I go up there 4 or 5 times a year and I still don't have the hang of it.
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cassis LOL
11/12/08

@BabyJane: And make the T stay open later than midnight!!! Do you realize that you are a college town???!!!??!
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BabyJane
11/12/08

@cassis: Good point! Consider that officially added to my list.
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stacyinbean
11/12/08

@BabyJane: Apparently the new plan is to abolish the MTA but add it to the regular highway program and up the tolls. Yikes! We're going to paying for the big dig through our asses for the next 20 years.
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BabyJane
11/12/08

@stacyinbean: I read that as well. It really is a nightmare.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/12/08

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I really don't get people's issue with this. Massachusetts has had it for a few years and things have gone on as usual. Of course, we are more awesome than most places, but still. The Chicken-Little language surrounding this is so full of idiocy that it positively infuriates me.
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pandorasmittens
11/12/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Tell me about it. I'm actually shocked that the fundamentalists haven't produced a childrens' book about the slippery slope towards hedonism and entitled it "The Pop Star & The Pineapple".
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
11/12/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Not to mention that isn't MA's divorce rate lower than pretty much every state? So hetero marriages have apparently not been ruined by teh gays.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/12/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I believe it's the lowest of any state. I was surprised when I heard that, but apparently not acting like jackoffs pays certain dividends.

Occasionally, there are freakouts in the well-heeled school districts about people not wanting their children to be exposed to the horror that is two daddies or two princesses or whatever, but they get their fifteen minutes of fame via the Globe and then fade into merciful obscurity as the rest of us fail to give a damn what they think.
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stacyinbean
11/12/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Pretty sure that is accurate when you use averages, DC sometimes has better years than we do. Yeah, I can definitely say the apocalypse has NOT come because of teh gay marriage...
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SarahMC
11/12/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I suspect that anti-gay marriage people are right when they say gay marriage will "ruin" straight marriage; it WILL ruin THEIR concept of how marriage should be: Dominant Man + Submissive Woman. To them, marriage is not between equals. It's between a man (clearly the boss) and a woman (low on the totem poll, natch).
That two EQUALS, in their eyes (people of the same sex), could sustain a successful partnership proves them wrong about the "natural" relationship between men and women.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
11/12/08

@SarahMC: Damn, then I guess I won't be getting married to my fiance, who makes less than I do and defers to me on most major issues. Anyone have a obnoxious alpha male who I can marry?
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SarahMC
11/12/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Well, they seem to be in denial of the fact that the equality ship has sailed and it's pickin' more and more people up for the ride.
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kelsium
11/12/08

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Yay!

Which states have civil unions? I thought Vermont did, but I could be wrong.
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gopher646
11/12/08

@kelsium: Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia have either domestic partnerships or civil unions.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/12/08

@kelsium: I was just looking it up. Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Jersey have civil unions, and California, Oregon, Maine, Washington, and DC have limited domestic partnership benefit arrangements.

I'm surprised Vermont didn't approve marriage first, honestly. They're way crunchier than we are.
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NefariousNewt
11/12/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: Vermont may be crunchy, but there's a conservative core of "real" Vermonters there that won't necessarily roll over for positive social change. Not everyone in Vermont is Ben or Jerry.
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kelsium
11/12/08

@gopher646: @TheFormerJuneBronson: Thanks!
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alouette
11/12/08

@TheFormerJuneBronson: You should've seen it when it passed though; all those "traditional" Vermonters put bumper stickers with "Take Vermont Back" on their cars. As if civil unions took away the state's ... ignorance?
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pandorasmittens
11/12/08

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Hooray for Fake American East Coast Liberal Elitists!
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
11/12/08

@pandorasmittens: Yaaaaay! FAECLE. FAY-EE-CLE. With the nice snooty æ going on there.
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hellosunshine
11/12/08

@tonightineed thinks rahm is nom: Do y'all watch How I Met Your Mother?

"Encyclopaaaaaaedia"
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
11/12/08

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Way to do the right thing, CT! *applauds*
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NefariousNewt
11/12/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Now, if they could make Lieberman go away...
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