Georgia On My Mind

Via Katharine.

It doesn't surprise me that my home state would do this:

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Article I of the Constitution is amended by adding a new Section IV to read as follows:

"SECTION IV.
MARRIAGE

"Paragraph I. Recognition of marriage. (a) This state shall recognize as marriage only the union of man and woman. Marriages between persons of the same sex are prohibited in this state.

(b) No union between persons of the same sex shall be recognized by this state as entitled to the benefits of marriage. This state shall not give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state or jurisdiction respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other state or jurisdiction. The courts of this state shall have no jurisdiction to grant a divorce or separate maintenance with respect to any such relationship or otherwise to consider or rule on any of the parties´ respective rights arising as a result of or in connection with such relationship."

After all, it's the same state that sent Zell Miller and Sam Nunn to Washington. (Max Cleland was a fluke.) And the state that gave us Bowers v. Hardwick.

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[chris]

In a related annoucement, a Utah based company will introduce a product designed to protect teens from
harmful homosexual messages in popular culture. The chief scientist of Nuke
Sodom Laboritories says the active ingrediants in Home Rockets(TM) shield young
minds from what he calls "gay rays". In test trials, the magazine Right
Parenting found that the drugs reduced bombardment of gay rays by 78.3% from 7
different disease transmitting mediums, including the Internet. The rocket
shaped supplements should be available in time to prepare for what
experts are predicting to be a level orange year, nearly the level detected
outside of John Waters apartment in Manhatten.

[ej]

It doesn't surprise me, but it's yet another document that exacerbates what I have to do with everyday life here. It's hard for me to be national when I have to worry about all the things that go on here.

*sigh*