The Maryland State Senate is expected to pass a bill permitting same sex marriage later this evening. My state senator appears to have been the previous opponent whose vote was the last of the 24 needed for the bill to pass the Senate, and yesterday, I sent him an email saying I knew this had been a tough decision for him, and that I therefore appreciated his courage even more.
Today, we received a mailing addressed to my late mother urging her to call our state senator to tell him not to support this bill to destroy traditional marriage in Maryland. They're a little late, both because she's been dead for several years, and because getting a mailing out this late would have been pretty woefully ineffective anyway. But I'm glad they wasted their money
Listen to history being made here:
http://mlis.state.md.us/...
(Click on the "Current Senate Proceedings" link.)
Some Republican is blathering on about Black's Law Dictionary, which doesn't define "marriage" to include same sex marriage, which no lawyer worth anything would ever cite as anything dispositive. It's typically well out of date. Now a Dem who is a constitutional law professor cites the most recent edition, which defines marriage more broadly.
Sorry for the short diary, but it's likely that the vote will be within the next hour or so, so I wanted to get this up so people could listen to history being made.