A story that may make you believe in a higher power, looking down and laughing at the stupids: In Arizona yesterday, a bill that would have put a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage fell in the Senate... by one vote. According to Lee Bolin of the LGBT Caucus:

Karen Johnson, the Republican who missed the vote, is so right-wing that she was a Buchanan delegate at the 1996 Republican National Convention.  She must be gnashing her teeth right about now.

We should send her our thanks... although that might antagonize her enough to put this thing back up for a vote. Oh well, let's just enjoy it while it lasts.

The retirement of Republican State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno of New York could put gay marriage in play again in the state. 

Have anything against South Carolina? Some people do now. A man was killed by a blow to the head-- a gay man, that is-- and his killer got three years in jail. As some legal experts put it, in South Carolina, this was the best that could be done under the law, since the jury convicted him only of involuntary manslaughter, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail. 

An Oklahoma judge is fighting a new rule that would prevent him from belonging to an organization that "discriminates based on sexual preferences."  

And the headline of the week, via Gay/Lesbian News: Newly Out Gay Man Overdoing It?