Comments on: TOMORROW: Rhode Island Will (Almost Certainly) Punt on Same-Sex Marriage

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:06:30 +0000

I live in Rhode Island. Stupid RI. I want them to legalize gay marriage so badly.

By: vernonvanderbilt

vernonvanderbilt — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:53:08 +0000

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:20:52 +0000

@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.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:44:04 +0000

ummm *sell

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:43:49 +0000

RI does allow prostituation, you just can’t seel it on the corner, it has to be private “selling”

By: strumpetwindsock

strumpetwindsock — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:51:56 +0000

@The Gay Numbers:
Sorry.. I meant don’t let the facts get in the way of grade school insults.

By: Andrew Triska

Andrew Triska — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:01:58 +0000

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!

By: The Gay Numbers

The Gay Numbers — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:44:51 +0000

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.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:31:06 +0000

Isn’t prostitution also legal in Rhode Island?

By: charlie

charlie — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:48:53 +0000

REALLY?

By: strumpetwindsock

strumpetwindsock — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:43:41 +0000

@Brian:

Come on…. why let the facts get in the way of a good lynching?

By: NewYorkness

NewYorkness — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:21:54 +0000

The irony? RI is the only New England state to have bathhouses…2 of them! And how Catholic (I grew up Catholic).

By: Mark M

Mark M — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:59:39 +0000

@Brian: And what the fuck is there to boycott? Maybe I wont send my kid to Brown. lol

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:45:24 +0000

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.

By: Lance Rockland

Lance Rockland — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:20:38 +0000

BOYCOTT RI until these dimwit legislators give us the respect we’re entitled to!

By: kademonster

kademonster — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:24:59 +0000

they’re the smallest, therefor… insignificant.

By: Oaklander

Oaklander — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:14:29 +0000

RI sucks donkey dong. It’s the low-class cousin of Boston.

By: Zakakaka

Zakakaka — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:05:29 +0000

RI is full of Catholic closeted bottoms…