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#marriage

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"Gov. Jared Polis signs bill repealing constitutional ban on same-sex #marriage in #Colorado"

The provision was left over from a less tolerant time in Colorado. Though Obergefell rendered it moot, #SCOTUS rumblings about possibly overturning that decision led to Colorado voters overwhelmingly pass a repeal initiative last year.

Small victories...

#LGBTQ #marriageequality

coloradopolitics.com/denver-ga

Colorado PoliticsGov. Jared Polis signs bill repealing constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in ColoradoGov. Jared Polis signs law repealing provision in Colorado constitution that only allows marriage between men and women. Love wins in Colorado.

Monday 8 April 1963

Britain’s car planners are studying the Paris fashions, and the result will be more colour on the roads. A Ford spokesman said, “Women usually decide the colour of the family car, and they are influenced by fashions.” Computer analysis revealed that Triumph saloon car buyers prefer dark blue or dark green, while white or red is favoured for sports cars.

For the Mosuo, in the vastness of Nepal, the absence of the norms of sedentarized marriage and male domination may have contributed to society's evolution towards peacefulness.

Male domination + individualism may be significant factors favoring violence and preventing societies evolution towards peace and maturity.

researchgate.net/publication/3

Sunday 7 April 1963

The Labour Party’s plans for a “University of the Air” have taken a big stride towards becoming effective. However, a national TV university will only be possible when the government sanctions a fourth channel devoted to education. This channel could be run through a joint project between the BBC and ITA.

Rain

The kids are at a concert with their father and their step mother. Jen is working. I’m sitting in the living room typing this and looking at a sleeping cat or two.

I want to shoot film at sunrise but I can’t because New England in April means rain on the weekends. Not just the weekends, of course, it just seems that way. Every Thursday or Friday I start looking forward to the weekend and I check the weather forecast and it’s always the same. It is always rain. Rain and gloom. Even the Red Sox have been in a rain delay for the last hour and a half or so.

I wish I could have made it into the city to join in on the Hands Off demonstrations today, but the kids were here and I would rather be with the kids than almost anything so I happily stayed home. One of these days there will be a certain ridiculously tall old person with red hair in one of those Boston throngs, I promise.

Until then, here’s a photo of Lily that I took a few minutes before she jumped up onto the ottoman and curled herself into a ball and fell asleep.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54432778705/in/datetaken/

I think Jen and I are going to do dinner via DoorDash tonight. It’s a special day for us so we need to do something nice to celebrate. 18 years ago today, on April 5, 2007, we went on our first date. As special days go, today is a big one. I love her so much, and it all kicked off 18 years ago today. Our relationship is old enough to vote, assuming the u.s. will still have elections… you know… nazis in charge and all. Oh shit, I just brought politics into my happy first-date-aversary message. Fuck me. Sorry about that.

Flickr217/365By robj_1971

Welcome statement, wedding sermon, readings, consecration, declaration of intent/ the vows, candle lighting/ alternative traditions, the pronouncement, the kiss, the presentation...
Working w the happy couple on my first marriage ceremony. We're not doing half that stuff, it's just a jumping point list.
#ordination #credential #NewJersey #NonDenominational #marriage #ceremony #husband #wife #county #city #witness #officiant #ordained #minister #ministerial #duties #declaration I #now #pronounce

Painting of the Day. Dialogue V
> > artcameroon.com/dialogue-5/
This entirely-orange spectacularly-brightly colored acrylic painting appears to be somebody trying to 'dialogue' his way out of some sort of trouble.
..and somebody else who's maybe heard it all before. Uh-oh.
80 x 100 cm
31 x 39 in
$1500 original / $200 art print / Free delivery from Boise, Idaho, USA
Sales benefit only the artist in civil war #Cameroon
#AfricanArt #dialogue #marriage #acrylicart or #artprint

Wednesday 3 April 1963

Women who want to “spend a penny” in public conveniences will soon be freed from the tyranny of the turnstiles installed by many local councils. However, sixty-nine councils have so far refused to agree to the government’s suggestion of removing the turnstiles while eighteen councils are undecided.