A few days ago Iowa’s supreme court effectively legalized gay marriage and thanks to Mike Gronstal their senate failed to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
And today, Vermont’s senate overturned the governor’s veto — with a rather impressive majority vote — of a gay marriage bill.
Is America collectively coming to its senses after the disappointment of November’s election results in regards to gay marriage?
It feels like we’re finally really starting to win some of the fights. How many more battles will we fight?
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I’ve never really written about being an atheist before. I’ve talked about it with like-minded friends, and I read many of the atheist blogs and such out there, occasionally commenting. But this will be the first time I really write about my own path to atheism. This is not one of those particularly inspiring stories of religious unmasking, but it is my story and for some reason I’m itching to tell it.
I had a very rare (near as I can tell) mish-mash of an upbringing when it came to religion. I remember going to church with my parents once in a while when I was very young, but neither my mother or father were particularly religious folks. My mother is probably closest to being agnostic as anything, and my father occasionally surfaces with a new belief system (he has at times regarded himself a christian, a unitarian, a universalist, and has briefly from time to time veered into agnostic territory). I can only surmise they made these infrequent church outings before they divorced (when I was 5 years old) to satisfy some community image — I was born and raised in the Southeastern United States, where this is expected of you — or to mollify my paternal grandparents. MaMaw and PaPaw were hardcore Southern Baptists. Neither of my parents has ever pushed me into any religion, but my MaMaw certainly gave it a good try.
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I started blogging first in 2000, back when Blogger was a little independent company in San Francisco with something like 7 employees and you had to know a little about building a website to run it. No one read my blog, and that was ok, because it was really just a substitute for human interaction that I wasn’t getting at the time. Well, that and it was writing of the drivel variety. In late 2001 I gave up on that one and more or less just ignored blogging altogether. Then in 2005 I started anew, feeling the need to share again and having discovered the wonder that was WordPress. This time I told stories and wrote about things that might actually be interesting to others. Oddly enough, I amassed a few readers and it was fun, but I kind of ran out of steam two years later.
In what might seem to be a pattern forming (blog a couple of years, take four years off) – I find myself drawn to blogging again. Why exactly, I can’t really say. I just need a new outlet I think. My job is something I cannot talk about publicly, so I have to forgo the amusing anecdotes of idiocy I encounter there, and I don’t know that I have a fresh voice or new idea to add to the world. But that urge to write — that demon that plagues me occasionally — is growing strong and so I’m finally making use of the WordPress.com account that I started just to get an API key for Akismet many a year ago. This time I intend to move a little more anonymously through the blogging world, but I will still be me, warts and all.
Wonder where it will take me now?
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