When you think of the south, what
comes to mind? Humid weather? Religion? Immigrants? Well, many small, close
knit southern communities seem to have something against gay marriage.
Okay, no that's a lie- they don't have something against it; in retrospect,
they seem to have a huge problem
with it. Not just the south either. Take, for example, the previous blog entry
about a man in New York who was shot and killed for the treacherously
unforgivable crime of being gay (yes, that was sarcasm, gay is okay); to sum it
all up, lets just say that some people are nuts- absolute wackos. But that's
not what this post is about. Today, I am going to talk you about a small town
in Arizona; a town that went against the odds to do the right thing.
This past April, the town of Bisbee, Arizona, a close knit community of about 5,600 residents, decided to adopt an ordinance establishing civil unions for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples; therefore giving them the same legal rights as if they were married. Now, to be honest I don't exactly know the difference between a civil union and a marriage; but hey, progress is progress, isn't it?
Unfortunately, no matter where you go, you're bound to find someone who disagrees, which is exactly what happened recently in the fine state of Arizona- state attorney general, Tom Horne (R), plans to file a lawsuit before the ordinance goes into effect later this month. Horne's claims are that the City of Bisbee violated Arizona's state constitution which limits marriage to opposite-sex couples; however, city attorney John MacKinnon has found the perfect loophole- the city is establishing civil unions, not marriages, and is therefore not violating any law.
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