As Rhode Island and Minnesota join the evolved states, some thoughts.

[Stinky The Clown]

Today, Rhode Island and Minnesota, reflecting the will of the majority of their respective citizenry, granted a basic human right to every one of their citizens. I confess to not having been aware that this was about to happen. When I heard this morning that it had, one of the very first thoughts that crossed my mind, quite on its own without any conscious effort to consider such things, that this was another measure of deep fracture in our society.

At that moment it was clear. In addition to red and blue states, in addition to union and right to work states, in addition to so many other clear, obvious, definable fissures, we now have what can rightly be termed Inclusion States and Exclusion States. In one group, things are a dreary gray derived of binary black and white thinking and black and white beliefs. In the other group, things are bright and cheerful, as can be noted by their veritable rainbow of acceptance and recognition.

The fact that states can *still* constitutionally endorse clear discrimination shows how little we, as a country, have evolved. This needs to become a federal matter.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Not quite yet

Let the other states continue to evolve, surely seeing that the states that embrace equal marriage are not falling off into the sea will embolden the progressive forces in the states where it is possible to effect change, and weaken those who warn of divine retribution.

Yes, there are some states that will never see the light, but we need to wait until they are clearly in a small minority before we stomp on their antiquated notions of what a marriage is.