On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages should be legal partly based on the freedoms and rights granted in the Massachusetts constitution. The Washington Post ran a stellar editorial on the issue today. Whether people believe that it is right in their religion is not the issue. The issue is whether it is fair and legal to deny gay couples the benefits of a legally recognized civil marriage. What is sad is that most people can't or don't understand the separation of church and state in the USA. We are not a Christian nation, nor a Jewish one, nor a Muslim one. We have a secular government for good reason - religious freedom was one of the reasons that colonists came to the new world in the first place. There is no good secular reason to deny gay couples marriage.

In other news, the British population have been annoying Bush at every turn on his state visit over to the UK. You can check out this web site for more information. Essentially, they've been using modern communications methods (mobile phones, text messaging, wireless internet) to organize protests as fast as possible and with the intent of ruining any potential photo ops for W. They've done a pretty good job so far...