Satire by John W. Lillpop
Over the years, tens of thousands of homosexuals have left America's heartland in order to experience the liberating freedom of the wild, wild west, and in particular, California, and even more particularly, the queen's paradise, otherwise known as San Francisco.
In what must be the ultimate irony for those who journeyed west in search of progressive permissiveness and moral-free living, the state of New York has legalized gay marriage!
As reported, in part, at Yahoo News:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — After days of contentious negotiations and last-minute reversals by two Republican senators, New York became the sixth and largest state in the country to legalize gay marriage, breathing life into the national gay rights movement that had stalled over a nearly identical bill here two years ago.
Pending any court challenges, legal gay marriages can begin in New York by late July after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed his bill into law just before midnight Friday.
At New York City's Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village pub that spawned the gay rights movement on a June night in 1969, Scott Redstone watched New York sign the historic same-sex marriage law with his partner of 29 years, and popped the question.
"I said, 'Will you marry me?' And he said, 'Of course!'" Redstone said he and Steven Knittweis walked home to pop open a bottle of champagne.
New York becomes the sixth state where gay couples can wed, doubling the number of Americans living in a state with legal gay marriage.”
Meanwhile, in the Queen City of San Francisco, gays are still not allowed to tie the nuptial knots.
For gays stuck in stodgy, old, conservative San Francisco, the new slogan of hope will probably be, "Go East, young men!"
