Queer Channel Media: All Marriage, All the Time
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/queer-channel-media-all-marriage-all-the-time/ (http://endablog.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/queer-channel-media-all-marriage-all-the-time/)
Yes, marriage is the measuring cock - the standard by which a state is to be judged as being either progressive or backward.
As po' pi'ful Kevin Naff laments:
Maryland, my backward Maryland
Of course, you'll find nothing in his snifflefest about the fact that Maryland still is a state that gives people such as himself the special - backward - right to discriminate against trans people.