First, they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.

In a footnote citing a 1992 comment on the topic, the document also noted that there was a danger that laws legalizing same-sex unions could actually encourage someone with a homosexual orientation to seek out a partner to “exploit the provisions of the law.”

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This is so funny on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin. Anyone else get it?

This is a good thing, kids. The more they scream, the more progress we are making. It’s like trying to stop the Big Bang a second too late. It took the Church 300 years to canonize Gallileo and it didn’t make a damn bit of difference in the end. In fact, the Church lost face, big time.

I imagine a time when the Church comes out in favor of gay unions — carefully worded to avoid the “m” word — in a “separate but equal” turn — a hundred years after it’s become globally accepted. Then I imagine a time when the Pope comes out (as gay). Then, later on, the Pope tells us she’s a lesbian. ‘Course the Church has been outcast to the moon Phebos by that time but it hopes to regain some status with the announcement.

~deb who’s already civil unioned so tthhfffpptt!!!

I was also a big fan of the Italian signs, and I just hope that the rest of the world is more openminded than the pigheaded nincompoops in Washington and the Vatican. Is Bush really so confident in the next election that he can shamelessly discriminate against a significant portion of the population? I know most wouldn’t vote for him anyway, but it seems like this should mobilize the gay community like never before.

Legislation of the bedroom seems like such a petty, self-righteous thing for the administration to focus on in times like these. It makes me want to slap some sense into the Son of a Bush. Can I say that without instigating a Secret Service investigation?