See what I mean?

An anti-gay marriage amendment was defeated in the state's House in New Mexico this week. Votes were mainly along party lines.

Virginia had a couple of noteworthy news items this week as well. The senate turned down legislation that would have requied social workers to screen prospective adoptive parents for homosexuality.

From http://365gay.com:

In the Senate Courts of Justice Committee, opponents of the legislation attacked the credibility of the chief witness for the measure: Paul Cameron, chairman of the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Cameron equated gays with drug users and prostitutes and then went on to assert that all three groups have a much lower than average life expectancy.

But, under questioning by Sen. Janet Howell, D-Fairfax, Cameron acknowledged that the American Psychological Association expelled him in 1983 for violating the association's ethical principles. The American Sociological Association adopted resolutions in 1985 and 1986 saying Cameron had consistently misrepresented sociological research, he acknowledged.

Nothing like getting the best experts to testify for your cause, eh?

And, in the other noteworthy news item is that the "traditional marriage" license plate legislation was withdrawn, ostensibly because the anti-gay marrige bill would take care of things.

This sort of restores some faith in mankind, and restores hope to those that might otherwise not dare to hope.