{"id":4546,"date":"2013-05-13T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:39:32","slug":"live-streaming-in-the-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2013\/05\/live-streaming-in-the-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Streaming in the Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at work, I had a bevy of computer work to do. I was going to listen to an audio book I have loaded onto iTunes, but, instead, I decided to have on the Star Tribune’s live streaming<\/a> of the state capitol events today.<\/p>\n

Back on Thursday, the Minnesota House of Representatives voted to allow same-sex marriage beginning August 1st. Today, the Senate was set to vote. In a way, this was the easy one. I wan’st sure if the bill would pass the House, but with a comfortable majority of Senators having already expressed support, today seemed mostly proceedural.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s a big deal. Minnesota – which should have been among the first five states to legalize gay marriage, is now set to become #12. Not exactly trail-blazing, but still ahead of other progressive-minded states, like Nevada, Hawaii, Oregon, and Illinois. And still ahead of those\u00a0fighting-to-stay-in-the-19th-century\u00a0states that we oddly fought a war to keep…Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and that one with Stone Mountain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s also a big leap forward from last year, when Minnesotans were presented with enshiring anti-gay marriage text into the State Constitution.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Here are some stills I grabbed from the streaming. And, to the Star Tribune, thanks for the coverage. If you don’t like that I am posting these images, let me know, and I’ll take them down.<\/p>\n

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\nI was watching a live stream of the events at the State Capitol, and the camera zoomed in on this group. Notice the guy on the left: his sign is informing us that 1 woman plus 1 man equals one (levitating) infant. Presumably he’s there to show his support for banning the marriages of infertile people.<\/p>\n

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\nHere’s another image from events at the Capitol this morning. God’s plan is simple? Um…having read the “good book” a few times, I can tell you that’s false. His plan involved arranged marriage, rape, incest, polygamy and (for women), no chance of divorce. Abraham, Jacob, Samson, David, Solomon, and others didn’t think marriage = 1 man and woman, either. Maybe the sign refers to a different god.<\/p>\n

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\nThey’re singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Seems like an appropriate song on, like, just about every level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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