Chocolate hottie Mehcad Brooks whom you may recognize from HBO’s True Blood or from season two of Desperate Housewives reveals in an interview with Honey Magazine that he refuses to get married until gay people have the same right.

Do you consider yourself the marrying kind? Do you want that?
I haven’t even gotten that far. But yeah, I want a wife, I want kids. The whole thing. But I’m also not even concerned with marrying somebody until it’s legal for everybody to get married. And what I mean by that is the whole Prop 8 thing.

Why is that cause so important to you?
I find it really offensive. I just find it really problematic when you start throwing people’s rights away. Until we get our gay brothers and sisters back into a realm of consciousness that everyone else is in, it’s just not right. A woman who’s getting married — it’s probably going to be a gay man who made her dress, and a gay man who’s doing her hair and makeup, but he can’t get married. How messed up is that?

His next project is a film by X-Files creator Chris Carter called Fencewalkers, which for whatever reason still has no plot description listed.

Now I’m off to finally watch the True Blood finale!

How awkward for Elisabeth.

As my best friend will tell you, I’m not a huge fan of Family Guy, but I do know that Seth has always been a big supporter of gay rights.

The discussion they’re having is an interesting one–it does seem America is reaching a turning point with gay marriage, the pro-gay liberals seem to longer be some crazy fringe group. The Republicans are seemingly moving closer and closer to the outskirts of mainstream America.

It looks like the momentum from Iowa and Vermont is heating up as now D.C. is jumping on the same-sex marriage train.

The D.C. Council overwhelmingly voted Tuesday in favor of legislation recognizing gay marriages from other states — a move city lawmakers lauded as a step toward legalizing such marriages in the city.

If signed into law, the bill will allow gay D.C. couples to marry in one of four states that allow such marriages, then return to the District and have the marriage recognized under city law.

The 13-member council gave preliminary approval to the bill on the same day Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex unions. The Vermont legislature voted to override the governor’s veto and allow gay marriages.

The D.C. legislation faces final approval by the council next month, then it must be reviewed by Congress, which has final say over most city laws.

Members also approved legislation that recognizes relationships that are similar to domestic partnerships in the District and have all “the rights and responsibilities of marriage” in another jurisdiction.

The District passed a law in 1992 that allowed same-sex couples to register as domestic partners. But Congress prohibited the city from spending any of its own funds to implement the law, until the ban was finally lifted in fiscal 2002.

D.C.’s hot mayor Adrian M. Fenty still needs to sign the legislation after the D.C. council gives its final approval next month.  Council member David A. Catania who is openly gay expects Fenty to support the bill.

Problem is, all D.C. laws also need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, and though we have a Democratic majority, we all know how spineless our dear Democrats really are.

(via Washington Times)

-”This is scary. Unlike Massachusetts, Iowa is an agricultural breadbasket. Watch crop yields plumett now. God takes His revenge in many ways. Just ask those people burned out of their homes (or had their crops dry up from drought) in California. Russia’s crop yields plummeted too, once she became an atheistic nation in 1922.”
-”More judges added to the ‘people to horsewhip’ list.”
-”This is for all of those that said the Family Protection Act was not necessary. How’s it feel to have three judges spit in the eyes of the overwhelming majority.”
-”We live in a Judicial Tyranny.”
-”We are fools if we think that God’s judgment will not come to this land. Fools.”
“IOW marrigage based on popping an orgasm rather than benefit to society.”
-”I am beginning to believe that there is no silent majority. The queers and the unemployed are running the country. I am a slave, 2/3rds of my taxes go into the pocket of someone else.”
-”There is no justice in the land.”
-”The USA is much more the fascist dictatorship than the kind of govt of the people it was founded to be.”
-”I have no problems with gays getting married. They just have to marry someone of the opposite sex, just like normal people. No special privileges for them!”
-”True. They can even have a 100% gay marriage…a queer can marry a carpet muncher!”

(via Free Republic)

I suppose it’s not very Christian of me to laugh at their “misfortune”, but then, I’m not a Christian.  So….