With just a half year left in what many believe has been the worst presidency in American history the possibilities are many, and some of them are truly frightening. As citizens of this country, we must do everything in our power to ensure that there is no expansion of war in the Middle East, no “false flag” attack at the Port of Houston or anywhere else, and a peaceful and constitutional succession to a new administration.

There's a joke about what we'll do next month that I've heard too many times already. It's not very funny because the subtext isn't funny. It goes like this: What's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage? With gay marriage, you have to get married over and over again to the same person. There are a lot of couples who are in the same position that Ellen and I find ourselves in. We had a religious ceremony and a domestic partnership. We got married in 2004, when San Francisco's City Hall was open to us for just a few weeks. We're a little tired of getting married. We want this time, at the office of the Alameda County clerk, to be the last.

When Californians start allowing same-sex couples to legally marry as a result of a recent state Supreme Court ruling, the Golden State will reap a massive financial bonanza that should go a long way through the summer toward softening the harshest impacts of an ongoing recession and record fuel prices.

Over the border in Nevada, the folks running those little gambling joints along Las Vegas Boulevard will meanwhile be crying in their red-state beers. Because of the utter hypocrisy, stupidity and basic mean-spiritedness of the Silver State’s electorate, Las Vegas will miss out on untold millions of dollars in tourism spending that could’ve been for being on the forefront of the coming gay-marriage tsunami.

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