No more corn, or corn byproducts for Maggie either I would guess.

I’m gonna start a pool, wagering on which state will be the last to legalize gay marriage. It’s gonna be fun.

As a Vermonter (straight, married, yada yada yada) I am proud as hell of what we did today. It was a long shot, particularly with the petulant rethug stuck in the Governor’s mansion. The fact that we were able to rub the sticky, gooey, passionate man-on-man lovey-dovey gay marriage thing in his reactionary face was just an added bonus. (Note to Harry Reid: we overcame the requirement for a 2/3s majority to override a veto — maybe you could get it together to override the occasional threat of a filibuster from the WATBs in the GOP now and again?)

Hey, for all I care Malkin and the wingnuts (all six of them who aren’t living off Mom & Dad’s good will) can stop buying Vermont products all they want (they’re not worthy of our good stuff anyway): we did the right thing, and it’ll pay off in spades (gay wedding ceremonies, gay tourists, etc.) if not only in improved karma…

Why, they’re legislating from the – um, legislature! You can’t do that, for some reason I promise I will invent later!

Maggie Gallagher channeling Lloyd Christmas:

“Confused. Wait a minute.. I think.. yep, I have an idea. Legislating is so socialist.”

Hey, if you allow gay marriage in Vermont, next thing you know, Larry, Darryl and Darryl are going to want to get married to one another….

I’m gonna start a pool, wagering on which state will be the last to legalize gay marriage. It’s gonna be fun.

It’ll be Utah. Without question, the Morons will go down as the 21st Century equivalent of George Wallace and the state of Alabama. “Heterosexuality now. Heterosexuality tomorrow. Heterosexuality forever.”

Some instantaneously-appearing outfit calling itself something like the Family Values Families for Family Values will bring a court case in three… two… one…

Hooray for VT! Nice work.

As an aside, Phish played in our fraternity house basement back in 1988 and it was pretty damn cool. They showed up in the middle of the afternoon to “work out some kinks” and sat around and played for hours. Pretty great, although I’ve never been a huge fan.

What makes you think this will ever happen?

For example, I’d expect that SC still has an anti-miscegenation law on the books. Unenforcable, thanks to Loving vs. Virginia, but unrepealed.

Just, you know, in case the USSC ever changes its mind about that whole mixed-marriage thing. Or SC secedes again.

you and atrios have to listen to more than just that one phish song. “Fee” was much more applicable. or “contact”. or even “you enjoy myself.”

Hmm. My immediate reaction was Oklahoma. It’s even redder than Utah. It’s kind of scary really. And I grew up there. Wait, maybe that’s why it’s so scary…

MKK

I’ll double up my next order to King Arthur’s. Good on ya, Vermont.

it took South Carolina until 1998 and Alabama until 2000 to officially amend their states’ constitutions to remove language prohibiting miscegenation.

And that’s a generation after the Supreme Court nullified those laws.

(Source: Wikipedia, citing USA Today.)

Really? I’ve heard Wyoming and Idaho (the latter is the only state with two capitols: Spokane and Salt Lake City) are sometimes Utah-er than Utah. There’s something about the high desert between the Cascades and the Rockies

The pool is off. After Nate Silver got into the game, everyone wanted to bet on Mississippi.

I figured the term activist legislators would show up somewhere in my surfing today.

Enjoy.

Um…Neither one of those cities are in Idaho and their only capital is Boise. Still, Idaho is a very, very red place.

Aw, c’mon, that was funny, not supposed to be literal.

Did you think you were joking when you wrote “I await the first one to decry “activist legislators”.” If so, the jokes on you. Tony Perkins declared that when elected legislators legislate they assault Democracy

“Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins today condemned the vote of the Vermont State Legislature to overturn the Governor’s veto on same-sex “marriage” as well as the vote by the District of Columbia City Council to recognize same-sex marriages performed in the 50 states.
“Same-sex ‘marriage’ is a movement driven by wealthy homosexual activists and a liberal elite determined to destroy not only the institution of marriage, but democracy as well.”

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