Somerville and gay marriage

[georgy.livejournal.com]

According to WBZ-AM 1030 this morning, Somerville is going to be one of the town's that doesn't give a rat's ass about residency come May 17 and the legalization of gay marriage, joining the ranks of P-town and Cambridge (Boston seems to have wussed out). So people can come and get married with no questions or hassle.

Hooray!

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

The situation in 1913 was strikingly similar to the situation now. Massachusetts, being more progressive than the rest of the country, had decided to recognize interracial marriages, which most states at that time did not. In order to avoid chaos and interstate battles (and possibly to avoid a backlash, or a test of the full faith clause which no one was feeling quite up to), the 1913 law was instituted. Yeah. Um. Sound familiar?

[12stringsamurai.livejournal.com]

I thought that it had something to do with interracial marriages, but I wasn't sure (and must admit I was a shade too lazy to look it up at the time).

While I will not go as far and say, as many have, that the fight for civil marriage rights (even civil rights overall) for homosexuals has reached (or will reach) quite the same destructive apex that the civil rights movement did when it applied to people of colour, the similarities are still rather striking. To be optimistic... as bad as things are now, we know that they aren't as bad as they were then and thusly means maybe we have learned a little something in the interim?

not much... but a hope I guess that we have grown slightly more tolerant, but of course a long way still needs to be travelled.