[devonin]

So uh...despite the fact that we've already said that our heartstrings are sufficiently pulled, and that we understand your point about how silly the discrimination is...we get a "this is a messed up world" post?

I thought we'd agreed on that, and moved on to the political ramifications of trying to legalise gay marriage in the United States, how such an attempt ought to be phrased, and how it ought to be done...

That said, I'm utterly unsurprised that the northeast is the most liberal portion of the United States, and given your love for appeals to the heartstrings, am surprised you didn't also bring up a map of the places where sodomy is still against the law (of which there are several states, though as of recently -not- texas which will probably surprise a lot of people with long-held assumptions about the deep south.)