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The Governor has been working quietly behind the scenes since last year to get the same-sex marriage legislation to cross his desk. He says he'll sign it. That makes Maryland the first state south of the Mason-Dixon line to do so. Although the District has allowed same-sex marriage since March of 2010, so it's not the first jurisdiction south of the Mason-Dixon line to do so. (There is some "suck it, New Jersey" mixed in this, too.)
Across the Potomac, Virginia is continuing to anger me. I had an ancestor in the Jamestown colony. My rants about ultrasounds, birth control (someone in comments of The Washington Post actually said that they were trying to ban any contraception that could be construed as abortion -- IUD, pill, morning after pill, etc. That would leave the diaphragm for a woman to control her reproduction options or trusting that her partner will use a condom every time.), and the most repressive DOMA in the country tend to begin with the phrase, "My ancestors didn't found that Commonwealth to have it make such boneheaded laws..."
Fortunately, some of my relatives were in Maryland, too. *G*
Across the Potomac, Virginia is continuing to anger me. I had an ancestor in the Jamestown colony. My rants about ultrasounds, birth control (someone in comments of The Washington Post actually said that they were trying to ban any contraception that could be construed as abortion -- IUD, pill, morning after pill, etc. That would leave the diaphragm for a woman to control her reproduction options or trusting that her partner will use a condom every time.), and the most repressive DOMA in the country tend to begin with the phrase, "My ancestors didn't found that Commonwealth to have it make such boneheaded laws..."
Fortunately, some of my relatives were in Maryland, too. *G*
