Gay people are getting married in Massachusetts

I've posted this before, but this groundbreaking news deserves another chorus from Hedwig:

ORIGIN OF LOVE

When the earth was still flat,
And the clouds made of fire,
And mountains stretched up to the sky,
Sometimes higher,
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs.
They had two sets of arms.
They had two sets of legs.
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked; while they read.
And they never knew nothing of love.
It was before the origin of love.

The origin of love

And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
Called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son.

The origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all
With my hammer,
Like I killed the giants."
And Zeus said, "No,
You better let me
Use my lightening, like scissors,
Like I cut the legs off the whales
And dinosaurs into lizards."
Then he grabbed up some bolts
And he let out a laugh,
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.
Gonna cut them right up in half."
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades
Of a knife.
And it ripped
Right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun
And the moon
And the earth.
And some Indian god
Sewed the wound up into a hole,
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay.
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane,
To scatter us away,
In a flood of wind and rain,
And a sea of tidal waves,
To wash us all away,
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping round on one foot
And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you
We had just split in two.
You were looking at me.
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar,
But I could not recognize,
Cause you had blood on your face;
I had blood in my eyes.
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine.
That's the pain,
Cuts a straight line
Down through the heart;
We called it love.
So we wrapped our arms around each other,
Trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love,
Making love.
It was a cold dark evening,
Such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of Jove,
It was the sad story
How we became
Lonely two-legged creatures,
It's the story of
The origin of love.
That's the origin of love.

Song written by Stephen Trask

Good on ya, Mass. You may even become Canadian one day.

Thanks, and we are working on it, eh?

It's just nice to see at least one state defending gay marriage. Besides, our beer is stronger, so it will be fun for all when you cross over the 49th parallel in peace.

Happy for the gay peeps. The legal benefits have been too long in coming for the many long-term relationship types.

Hopefully more states will follow this example. As an american, I'm so sick of the double standard we have here of "we're the land of the free, but, hey, we reserve the right to discriminate when we want!" It makes no sense that a country that calls itself free is so controlling. I like america for some things, but crap like this has got to change. I hope in my lifetime I get to see all the states allow gay marriages.

A big yay from me for gay marriage; they deserve the same rights as heterosexual people: what is this-- Nazi Germany? It's as stupid as Oscar Wilde's imprisonment in the nineteenth century. I can't see how Bush et al can defend such overtly stupid discrimination as being 'the Work of God,' in the an often Degenerated land. He cannot brag of instilling Freedom in the Arab world, if he cannot give people the Rights that they deserve in his own 'homeland.' (Also, how does he know that 'God,' if there is one, now agrees with such things as Usuary and not with homosexuality? What is the difference?)

I'm pretty damned psyched.

E-mailed a friend and asked if congratulations were in order. He said no. They were counting on Gov. Romney's ineffectuality to stop the marriages, and they've set a date of October 9. Good. Make it not a tidal wave, but a rising tide.

I went with my sister and her son to the Cambridge City Hall at lunch yesterday to cheer and leave a sign of congratulations. It is a great thing our SJC did.

cav, that song refers to Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium. See: http://comp9.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/ebe_theory.html#D%20to%20E%20to%20F

All I know is all the pictures on boston.com from yesterday have confirmed my theory: the only hot lesbians are in porn.

Good for them, though.

I live in Massachusetts
I am very excited for the oppertunity to live in a state that is so openminded. I have many gay friends and I am happy to know they can now express love and divotion.

Cool...but Hedwig's interperatation is just so glam and rockin'. Yikes...Plato was so long ago for me...

I thought the passage was cool enough indeed to quote here (thanks jespah!):

"In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes explains sexual attraction by recounting the early history of human beings. Originally, we were all eight-limbed creatures with two faces and two sets of genitals. Males had two sets of male genitals, females had two sets of female genitals, and androgynes had one set of each kind. As punishment for being overly ambitious, Zeus had all humans cut in half. But because the two halves of each former individual clung to each other in such a desperate attempt to reunite, Zeus took pity on them and invented sexual intercourse so that they might at least reunite temporarily. Sexual attraction thus reflects an attempt to complete one's original self, and heterosexual attraction is what we observe among descendents of the androgynes."

Hence the expression: better half. :-D

Hey, it's been 3 days! The world hasn't ended! The sky hasn't fallen! Gay people aren't running in the streets, scaring our women and children! My marriage is as strong as ever!

Take that, Governor Romney.

oh yeah you ROCK! hello from western Mass.... the good old berkshires!

Hello from the other end o' the state! :-D

isn't massachusetts wonderful???
that can be taken literally or with sarcasm... I guess it depends on how you feel about it that day

Western MA? That's a whole other country. You guys are like Maine people.
By the way, your website doesn't work.

thanks I will fix that. western mass is like Iowa... everyone lives there but nobody wants to admit it.