for fellow fen and mixologists

BSG drinks.

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I rather like the juxtaposition of pink drink and Centurion. :)

so clearly the proper solution

This is great, from the Merc. I wonder though why 'everyone' hates the idea. ? No one I know does. The endless 'tradition' argument just bores me. ;) I mean, isn't traditional this and that the ball and chain? Really, the civil union is what the actual issue is, not what some particular religon does or doesn't do.

Excerpts:
...Surprising even the 22-year-old pre-law student, his personal project during Christmas break — framing a constitutional amendment initiative to replace the word "marriage" with "domestic partnership" under state law — was cleared by Secretary of State Debra Bowen to gather petition signatures for a potential statewide ballot.

...The measure would overturn Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage, and have California treat all unions — opposite-sex or same-sex — as domestic partnerships. It would also allow churches, synagogues and mosques to decide whom they want to marry in a social, rather than civil, ceremony.

The domestic partnership initiative might be an extreme long shot to pass — or even make it to the ballot. In what may be a first, the warring sides in the Proposition 8 campaign agree on something — they both hate the idea.