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GOPers want their ‘small govt’ in your marriage

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From our generous friend @anomaly100 at FreakOutNation:

GOPers want their ‘small govt’ in your marriage, North Carolina lawmakers sponsor bill making divorce more difficult March 30, 2013 By Anomaly A pair of Republican legislators — since apparently they have nothing else better to do– are proposing a bill which would make it even more difficult for couples in North Carolina to get a divorce. So, now Republicans want their small government in your marriage. The ‘Healthy Marriage Act’ sponsored by state Sens. Austin Allran (R) and Warren Daniel, would extend the present one year waiting period for a divorce, to two years; during that time, the couple would have to complete mandatory courses on improving their communications skills and conflict resolution.

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Video Mid Day Distraction- Our Wedding Song: Stories of 4 elderly couples, through songs that played at their marriages

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I’ve got something in my eye. Via Boing Boing.

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VIDEO: “When you find your voice, you do not want to shut up about it.”

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Melissa had a lovely show today, so elegant in so many ways. Many of us needed that touch of class after such a brutal election cycle.

If only she and Chris Hayes could move to weekdays, enlarge their audiences, and open a few eyes.

Melissa Harris-Perry:

“There are many other fantastically loving, wonderful, creative, fulfilling and healthy ways to make family. Even Jesus was born to an unwed mom and raised by a doting stepfather.”

MSNBC anchor and newlywed Thomas Roberts:

“Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California flew in to marry us. it was epic, so special, the best night of our lives by far. I highly recommend it to everybody out there. Go get married, whoever you want to marry. In certain states now, if you are part of the lesbian and gay community, you have that option to be able to do that. And it was so fulfilling. I grew up pretending a lot to fit in, pretending to be straight. And I find now … when you find your voice, you do not want to shut up about it. I have found my voice. I feel very privileged to have found it. Patrick and I were together 12 years up to the point where we got married, and we deserved that opportunity.”

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Video Mid Day Distraction- Marriage Proposal of the Week

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Barney Frank Weds Jim Ready

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I preempt our normal 9a link post for something damn well worth it. Nice NYT write up.

IT was perhaps fitting that Representative Barney Frank met his future husband, Jim Ready, at a political fund-raiser in 2005.

“I told him I had a crush on him for 20 years,” said Mr. Ready, recalling that as a teenager he was inspired by Mr. Frank’s public declaration that he was gay.

And what did Mr. Frank make of that? “That I’m being rewarded for coming to this fund-raiser,” he said with a laugh.

Mr. Frank, 72, and Mr. Ready, 42, were married in Newton, Mass., part of Mr. Frank’s district, on Saturday in a low-key ceremony on the banks of the Charles River. Gov. Deval L. Patrick of Massachusetts officiated. The guests included Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, as well as Senator John Kerry and Representatives Dennis J. Kucinich and Steny H. Hoyer.

Mr. Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, became, in 1987, the first sitting member of Congress to volunteer that he was gay. He is now the first to be married to a partner of the same sex. Both bridegrooms said they recognized the historical significance of the ceremony, which lasted less than five minutes. Gov. Patrick told the guests that Mr. Frank had requested that the service “be short and to the point.”

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Video- President Obama to Troops: Marry “Someone Superior To You”

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Snort.

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Video Mid Day Distraction- Don’t Want To Get Married!!

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An oldie, but it fits my frame of mind today!

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