Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, Maine, and soon to be New

[Q3JR4]

Hampshire.

The times they are a changing.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Q3JR4.
He can feel it.

On edit:
Cursing my inability to spell Massachusetts correctly.

[polmaven]

1. LOL...did you spell

Massachusetts the way the president pronounces it?

[Q3JR4]

3. Forgot about that thar

newfangled dealybober...the whatchacallit? Oh yeah, spell check.

;)

Q3JR4.

[bigwillq]

2. Thank you, Maine!

:bounce:

Let's Go New Hampshire! :bounce:

[Q3JR4]

5. Yes!

I'm on pins and needles about that one.

Q3JR4.
Watching the times change.

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[t0dd]

6. Poor California

It deserves to be on that list too :grr:

[Q3JR4]

7. Yes it does.

And one day soon it will be again.

It would be very interesting if, after voting for a constitutional amendment, Californians decided to repeal that amendment. We'd have the first ever legislative action taken to legalize same sex marriage with the first ever governor override for the same goal, to go along with a unanimous state supreme court ruling, and the first ever repeal of a constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples.

Q3JR4.

[nomorenomore08]

12. It would only take (roughly) 2% of voters changing their minds.

And I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few out there who, after perhaps being pressured by their church or social circle into voting yes on 8, now feel a degree of remorse.

[Creideiki]

8. And DC and NY recognizing same-sex marriages performed elsewhere

[Q3JR4]

9. And legislation being discussed in both

that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Q3JR4

[friedgreentomatoes]

10. WTF is the matter with MD?

Such a blue state, yet no recognition at all...
only recently this year did they include health insurance benefits for domestic partners of state employees.

:P Loved reading those extra pamphlets included in the health insurance package :P

[elshiva]

17. Sigh, don't I know it. Maryland has a way to go, but

O'Malley said something like "I'm not against gay marriage..." Come on!

[friedgreentomatoes]

18. I remember sometime prolly in

late 2007 or early 2008, the judges ruled whatever is there in the MD constitution (it is not an ammendment but some sort of definition of marriage as between opposite sex) is NOT unconstitutional.
No progress after that.

But now I can easily move to DC :)

[LostinVA]

11. And, hopefully NJ's Gov will keep his promise and "commute" CU to marriage

[tbyg52]

13. Ain't it great!!!!! nt

[eppur_se_muova]

14. So where's RI? New England is almost a sweep now ... nt

[Veruca Salt]

15. I love me some Dylan.

I've been going around singing this song to myself since someone brought it up in regards to the gay civil rights movement. :)

[JackBeck]

16. Here in NJ, we have our marriage equality bill currently waiting to get voted out of the Judiciary.

Basically, in the same situation as Maine a few weeks back.

Thankfully, we have dedicated constituents calling and writing their legislators. We've been targeting members of the Judiciary the past few weeks and have finally started to hear some grumblings as far as movement. Unfortunately, it currently looks as though we won't see anything happen until November, during the lame duck session after the election.

But that all could change in an instant, just like how it went down in Maine.