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RI is full of Catholic closeted bottoms…
RI sucks donkey dong. It's the low-class cousin of Boston.
they're the smallest, therefor… insignificant.
BOYCOTT RI until these dimwit legislators give us the respect we're entitled to!
Um, just to make the obvious point, at last count there were dozens of states with constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Rhode Island is one of the few that doesn't have that, and one of the even fewer that recognizes gay marriages from other states, which for a pipsqueak like Rhode Island is about 20 minutes away. Granted it's the laggard in New England, but I'd put it relatively far down the list of boycott targets.
@Brian: And what the fuck is there to boycott? Maybe I wont send my kid to Brown. lol
The irony? RI is the only New England state to have bathhouses…2 of them! And how Catholic (I grew up Catholic).
@Brian:
Come on…. why let the facts get in the way of a good lynching?
REALLY?
Isn't prostitution also legal in Rhode Island?
It is very sad that people seem to think "well they do not have a ban is good enough to not call for activism." The politics of lowered expectations continues to eat away at this country. Not just gay rights, but all issues. Find the lowest common demoninator and you will find someone advocating that lowest demoninator as a virtue.
I had to look up "punt" on the internet to get the metaphor in the title. Next on Queerty: closed captioning for the sports impaired!
@The Gay Numbers:
Sorry.. I meant don't let the facts get in the way of grade school insults.
RI does allow prostituation, you just can't seel it on the corner, it has to be private "selling"
ummm *sell
@the gay numbers: I guess you're better with numbers than letters. If you read my comment, not only don't they have a ban, they also accept gay marriages from other states, one of only two states to do so. So I think that puts Rhode Island well into the top ten on the gay marriage issue. If you want to boycott everyone but the states with gay marriage, go ahead, but I think the effectiveness of a 45 state boycott is open to question.
Isn't a Rhode Island boycott sort of the default mode for any human? What do they have to sell? Apparently prostitutes and roosters. Not much call for the latter, and I'm sure the former can be found in much higher quality elsewhere.
Seriously, it's not like Rhode Island counts. We only call them a state so they don't feel bad. It's not like we mean it.
I live in Rhode Island. Stupid RI. I want them to legalize gay marriage so badly.
:(