An amendment to ban gay marriage has overwhelmingly passed in Missouri. I'm comfortable with Missouri not being a very liberal state, but does it have to lead the way in bigotry? They say Missouri is a nice place to be from, but sometimes I'm not sure.
Posted by ahyatt at August 4, 2004 08:02 PMYeah, that's totally depressing. Why did we have to be first? Amendment 2 didn't pass in the city of St. Louis (47% yes, 53% no), but that's closer than it should have been. I don't know a single person who voted for it.
Posted by: Brian H. Marston on August 5, 2004 10:56 AMI too, am ashamed to be from a state that has institutionalized bigotry into it's constitution. Shameful. We're not the first state to do it, though--there's four others with such language in their constitutions already.
I was surprised at how strongly it passed. Of the people I know, the vast majority were against it. At the Strassenfest on saturday, a giant black transvestite in a frilly white tuutuu went marching through the crowd. Everybody I saw seemed amused and tolerant--definitely not what you'd expect from the population that passed such an amendment by such a wide margin. It makes you wonder...
Posted by: Greg on August 8, 2004 09:15 PMI'm guessing the tutu guy was Baton Bob:
http://www.dhtv.org/video.php?stuff=jamerson&speed=dsl
He's moving to Atlanta because he feels he's been mistreated here.
Posted by: Brian on August 10, 2004 09:51 AM