Well, over here in LimeyLand we have taken one more slow rumbling step towards that most noble of American ideals - "With Liberty And Justice For ALL".
In a last minute deal between the saner parts of the three main parties the third and final reading of the bill that will legalise marriage equality passed muster, and the bill is now off to see its way through the House of Lords. A bonus of this of course is that the homophobic bigot section of the Conservative party have been dragged out into the light from under the slimy rock they dwell beneath and given a sharp reminder of what side of history its best to be on when the UK press gets hold of you.
Yes, there in that dusty and much more polite pit of politics the House of Lords it will come face to face with one of the last dusty and redundant bastions of state religion - those despicable wastes of space the Lords Spiritual - but they are a small minority and alone have no hope of defeating this. There in the upper house there are hardly any of the Bagger wing of Conservatism to screech about creeping "aggressive homosexuality"... but lets see what the Lords Spiritual find to bitch and whine about. They never fail to disappoint.
But be sure. This WILL pass.
However, and believe me it is choking me worse than a pretzel on Gee Didya Bush's TV dinner tray to admit this, I think David "Clownshoes" Cameron said it best when he made the statement below the orange croissant of love.
"There is something special about marriage.
It's not about religion. It's not about morality. It's about commitment. When you stand up there, in front of your friends and family in front of the world, what you are really doing really means something brave and important. You are publicly saying: it's not about "me, me, me," anymore. It's about "we": together, the two of us, through thick and thin. That really matters.
And by the way, it means something whether you are a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and another man."
And there it is.
Plain simple truth.
Proof that I am wrong, and that not every statement made by a Conservative is a six foot high stack of bullsh*t.
And proof that even a stopped clock can still tell the right time twice a day.
We live and we learn.
UPDATED: - thanks for the verbiage corrections guys.