gay rights stuff

[rm]

More baby steps forward that highlight our barbarism:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/24/gay.diplomats.benefits/index.html

How is this shit even a question?

Meanwhile, common sense from the Church of Scotland:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/24/scotland.church.gay.minister/index.html

Finally, California, Tuesday....

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I am an expat myself, though not a diplomat.... so I *know* exactly how screwed you'd be in a foreign country where you don't have help or benefits, especially if you don't speak the language. OK, maybe I'm a wimp; plenty of people emigrate to the two countries I've lived in without any of that, many with far less education, money and resources than I have. But that's *hard* - harder than I think most people living in their home country can realize. It's certainly given me a new viewpoint on what my own great-grandparents went through to get to the US. (Of course, for them health benefits were probably best described as "none in either country - eat some chicken soup instead".

I've known a number of people who got married specifically in order to get the benefits for their spouses, which doesn't bother me that much when the choice is available.

But denying benefits to unmarried couples *and* denying them the right to marry.... um, yeah, I think 'barbarous' is the correct word.