Gay Marriage Legal in Albuquerque!

[dsteve01]

I was watching Rachael Maddow online (it was yesterday's news) and suddenly breaking news: Bernillo County clerks decided to hand out marriage certificates.

Pretty exciting stuff, people!

[Warpy]

1. I think they decided to do it county by county

to keep it under the radar. That wasn't a very good strategy since the papers have been showing radiant same sex couples on page one. The cat's out of the bag and there was no way to keep the preachers happy by denying equal protection under the law to same sex couples.

It will likely be state wide very quickly.

This state gets remarkably civilized from time to time.

[obama2terms]

2. Yay!

My buddy who lives there told me that this morning, but I wasn't a 100% sure because this whole county to county deal is a new thing. I wish the whole state could just do it, make things less complicated!