hellziggy

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it 'protected' by anyone who thinks that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Oh hell yes! I have been married to

hellbob for over 14 years. That marriage is doing just fine on it's own without bigoted hate-filled homophobes "protecting" it! If they really want to protect marriage, how about making divorce illegal? Call me crazy, but I think a divorce would do far more damage to a marriage than two people who love each other but happen to have the same junk 'down there' getting married!

Author's Note: No, I do not advocate for making divorce illegal. I just think that if you want to "protect" marriage, stopping same-sex marriage is a fucked up way to do it!

Yes, most of the Minnesotans on my flist have already posted this, but I just have to get my rant on too...

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/595384.html

( Article text here if you don't want to clicky )

This has pissed me off so much. A nine year old should know better. Also, where were her parents? Did they see her climbing up and reaching down? Did they tell her not to?

This family should be banned from the zoo for life. They should also have to pay the replacement costs for 5 meerkats and the necropsies.

Is it cruel and petty of me that I had been hoping that one of the meerkats would have had rabies so that she has to get the shots anyway?

So the cute little Suricata suricatta in my icon may be dead now. Also, these pictures following? Most likely dead as they were on exhibit just a few weeks ago.

Yes, people are important, and often times we have to put humans rights and safety over that of animals. But not in this case. These senseless deaths could have all been prevented with a vaccine. Yes, the vaccine isn't fun, but it would also be a lesson to the girl and her parents that life has consequences. I personally feel that as she was reaching into a area off limits and it wasn't a case of an animal getting out and biting her that there should have not been a choice about the shots.