<p> <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZyAueltLsa4?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video"></iframe> </div> </p> <p> So, there&#39;s this video going around of Al Franken (whom I truly admire as one of our more sensible-seeming Senators<sup class="footnote-reference"><a id="footnote-reference-1" href="#footnote-1">1</a></sup>) taking Tim Minnery–who services in some sort of capacity with the anti-gay Focus on the Family organization–to task for misrepresenting a study about the correlation of the well-being of children and the type of family they come from.</p>

<p> When someone undertakes something for fun, or out of passion or deep commitment, the end result is often, I think, more reflective of them personally.</p> <p> This is generally true of Free Software, and in the Free Software universe, I think this is sometimes even more true of documentation–you&#39;re not obligated to write it, no one&#39;s paying you, few people enjoy writing docs, so if you&#39;re doing it at all, it&#39;s because you <em>believe</em>.</p>

<p> The only tenet of which should be, &#34;Two people who love each other should be allowed to marry.&#34; Maybe two tenets, the other being, &#34;Be excellent to one another,&#34; which has its plusses, too.</p> <p> At which point, the opportunity to have same-sex marriages becomes one of religious freedom. To restrict such marriages becomes a first-amendment issue, which carries more weight than equal protection, apparently.</p> <p> Of course, I would hope that many heterosexual couples would also want to get married in the First Church of Fabulousness–it being fabulous, see–but, you know, they, too, could exercise their right to choice.</p>