Sometimes kids say the darndest things.

The University of Washington's student newspaper The Daily, wanting to be topical, relevant and "newsy", decided to run two opposing op-eds on gay marriage, right next to the STD warnings and article headlined "Women Can Be Computer Scientists Too", about an on campus lady professor tired of being oggled by pimply nerds in her lecture hall day in and day out.

You'd think, this being Seattle and all, the paper's foray into the gay marriage issue would be all warm, fuzzy gooeyness. Right?

Or at the very least that it would refrain from comparing gay marriage to bestiality. With an illustration. Of a man. With a sheep. Presumably at City Hall asking for their marriage license.

Talk about baaa–ad ideas.

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Were Sunday's religious sermons, just two days before a Tuesday Election Day, responsible for the conservative push behind Proposition 8? With Joy Behar guesting Larry King Live, guest Cynthia Nixon theorizes as much, while also delving into her own personal dilemma: Her girlfriend Christine Marinoni, who Cynthia wants to marry, has no legal rights to their children.

Say what you will about Ashton Kutcher — What Happens In Vegas, Guess Who, and the list goes on — but it's nice to see the guy's on the side of gay folk, and willing to drill down the entire notion of Proposition 8 so succinctly: That in a country founded on the separation of church and state, we refuse to separate church and state. (Oh, and the religious guy in the beginning is hell-a interesting too.)

The MSM finally picked up on a story about a Church of Latter Day Saints memo that Kos ran last week. The 1997 document from then LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley details the church's strategy for defeating same-sex marriage, which stresses including the Catholic Church in the fight. The memo looked at the Hawaii civil union decision and uses it to survey the California political landscape. After determining that in California:

"Anti-H.L.M. (presumably "homosexual legal marriage") legislation through both Houses of the California Legislature appears virtually impossible at the preent.  There is a consensus that referendum is the only route. While expensive, there are at least two coalitions coming together with one of them showing promise as to raising money.

Richard Wirthlin has run a survey which shows public support for our position in the mid-fifty percentile. As in Hawaii, his survey shows that the public image of the Catholic Church higher than our Church. In other words, if we get into this, they are the ones with which to join."

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Queerty commenter Michael alerted us to this super-duper pressingly important PSA from the Upright Citizen's Brigade that all Prop. 8 supporters should see. It's important now that they've won one battle, that they be ideologically consistent with their beliefs and make marriage safe by eliminating the family-destroying, children's-tears-inducing world of divorce.

This is basically the smartest, most insightful thing that's been put together on the issue and all the gays in the world who didn't donate to Prop. 8 but who really wanted gay marriage to pass should buy up all the airtime on TV and play forever or until Prop. 8 supporters brains explode like in that one episode of Star Trek with the blonde robot babes whose brains explode when faced with a logical inconsistency. You know the one–they parodied it on Futurama and everything. Anyway, this video rocks.

Hey, remember how we were all making fun of Keith Olbermann and his kitten, Ms. Precious Perfect last week? Well, Keith-O pulled out one of his patented "Special Comments" tonight to talk about Prop. 8. and you may want to grab a hankie before watching. "This is about the human heart", he says before asking of Prop 8. supporters, "Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option." He then recounts America's terrible history of marriage rights, comparing slave marriages to gay marriages– and actually pulling it off.

His voice trembling, Keith looks into the camera and says "You are asked now to stand on a question of love. All you need to do is stand and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate. You don't have to help it. You don't have to applaud it. You don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while at first it may look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know, that love is, in fact, the ember of your love for your fellow person. Just because this is the only world we have and the other guy counts too."

I'm emailing this to everyone I know.