Human Rights Campaign has this to say about amendments passed in Missouri, Utan, Ohio and Michigan and how they have been interpreted:

- Deny domestic partner benefits, such as health insurance, to unmarried couples — same- and different-sex.
- Argue that domestic violence laws do not apply to different-sex unmarried couples.
- Attempt to void a custody agreement between a same-sex couple.

Uhm, I'm more than a little disturbed by the middle one because if I live in one of those states and am beaten up by my boyfriend, I HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHTS FOR PROTECTION UNDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAWS. At my last job in Scotland I worked as a clerical assistant for the City of Edinburgh Criminal Justice Social Work Team. I dealt with reports and cases about domestically abused women and the men who abused them. I noticed that frequently the abused women were not married to the abusers.

Another legal slapdown for the empowerment of women.

I borrowed the due South DVDs from taeli and since I'm no where near as familiar with the RayV years as I am with the RayK years (I've seen all the RayK eps and only a handfull of the RayK eps - I was poor when I ordered my tapes from the due South tape exchange and could only afford the RayK ones...) I went to look up an ep guide to help me decide which ep I am going to watch tonight. And found that William and Elyse's due South Episode Guide still refers to RayK as Stanley - which is his first name but no one EVER calls him by that (except his father) because Ray has a deep dislike for the name. They shorten it to Stan in the ep guides themselves and that still makes me really twitchy and pissed off because the fucking Ray wars ended years ago and really, it wouldn't be that much trouble to CHANGE THE NAME TO THE RIGHT NAME would it?

*breathes in*

I'm going to go watch "Free Willie" now. Thank you SO MUCH taeli!!!. I'll catch up on LJ tomorrow when my wrists don't hurt.

(and then later today I'll think about my engraved personal invitation to my Special Hell - aka SGA RPS Katherine/Joe/David)

GIP: made at bipagan's house yesterday, inspired by a comment she made.