It also drives me nuts when people forget about the whole separation of church and state. **headdesk**

On Tuesday my state has a marriage "amendment" on the ballot. It enrages me that it's there at all. That close minded people used our budget crisis to slid that into the agenda. They preferred to shut down the government and cause a multitude of other problems so they could push their agenda and keep "traditional marriage." I want to ask these people what for of traditional marriage they mean because it was not all that long ago that interracial marriage was illegal, that black people could marry at all, that women were considered chattle and basically a trade good.

Because it warrants repeating: **headdesk**