Oklahomans and Gays Hitched

PoliNation lives! Thanks, Pete, for all the goodies. I've got about a dozen things piled up over the weekend. Wanna see?

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Deeply conservative Oklahoma adjusts to sudden arrival of same-sex marriage

The “polite gays,” was how Tracy and Kathryn described themselves. Not political or loud, not obvious or overt, but understated, in keeping with their Oklahoma surroundings. Never asking anyone to think too hard or talk too much about the fact that they were gay at all. Except now they were about to ask everyone they knew to think about it, because they’d decided to have a wedding.

According to the Washington Post, for whom Oklahoma must be the very epitome of deepest, darkest flyover country.

My own assessment? Oklahoma is deeply conservative, and deeply conservative folks are happy to mind their own business. "Gay marriage" forced upon us? Most folks shrug at modern craziness. You can call it marriage if you want to; nobody is opposed to folks having decent partner privileges tantamount thereto, and don't care about your bedroom practices, but it's not ever going to be considered Marriage in most folks' dictionaries.