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• GM = Government Motors? U.S. could own as much as 70% of carmaker
• Republicans face delicate task in opposing Supreme Court pick Sotomajor
• Amid Prop. 8 protests, advocates begin planning next phase of same-sex marriage fight

The California Supreme Court today ruled in favor of upholding Prop 8, the gay marriage ban whose campaign was financed largely by religious zealots (including several here in Travis County) and fueled by public misconceptions and outright lies. Understandably, the internet's become a shitstorm of outrage and general disbelief, with many on Twitter echoing the previously silly but increasingly logical declaration that Iowa has somehow become more progressive than the Golden State (no offense meant to Iowans).

And it's...Sotomayor. Prop 8 opponents wait with bated breath. North Korea doesn't respond well to condemnations. Young principals in NYC schools raise eyebrows. Mike Tyson's little daughter's sad and bizarre accident. A wedding worry we hadn't even thought to consider. This is a labor of love we can get behind.

Warren, my young hot boyfriend and I got married a few months ago. We did this very much on the down low, just the two of us and a county clerk. I wore a lovely dress I picked up on the sale rack at Target for $10 and Warren wore a matching Hawaiian-themed shirt. It was my third time to get hitched and Warren’s first. You might think, with me being old hat at getting married and Warren being the sort to swear he’d never marry, that he would’ve been the one with cold feet. Nah. He practically skipped into the Travis County Marriage License Office to file the paperwork, whereas I was the one shaking. Because after enduring two prior short lived marriages-from-hell and two even more hellish divorces, I finally came to the conclusion that I’d rather be tied to a bed of rusty nails and broken glass and have a diarrhea plagued horse shit in my mouth while my ten worst ex-boyfriends plucked out my toenails then ever go that route again.

• As if flying isn't bad enough these days, pilots are now having in-flight mental breakdowns.
• Huckabee = FAIL. Again.
• Cabinet talk.

The dozen or so speakers at the rally, including representatives from Equality Texas and "straights for gays" alliance Atticus Circle, supplanted vitriol with grace and tact. Instead of an angry backlash against those who supported California's Prop 8, the focus was on family, respect, and the need for our entire community, regardless of sexual orientation, to demonstrate to others that the only "gay agenda" at hand is, simply and genuinely, to be granted the right to love.

For such a self-touted "oasis of blue," Austin still has its fair share of folks of a decidedly more conservative persuasion, which is why we weren't terribly surprised to learn (via our twitter friends—follow us @austinist!) that at least twenty Austinites voted with their pocketbooks in favor of passing Prop 8. Chief among them is a rising star at Dell (and newly-minted local Google search phrase), who contributed an astounding $25,000 to ensure that marriage was wrested away from the cloven hooves of heathen homosexuals and safely cloistered with the breeding half. Perhaps this Marketing Manager and his hatemongering brohams, as the joke in the Austinist office goes, were so disappointed by their own nuptials that they meant to spare the rest of us the misery. Hard to say.

In the midst of the impending transformation that most of us celebrated on November 4th, the inhumane passage of Prop 8 saddened a nation already geared up for progress. But on Saturday, we have the chance to participate in a national uprising that could help overturn Prop 8 – thus promoting a generous leap toward real equality for the whole country. Bring your signs, banners, and friends to City Hall at 12:30 p.m. this Saturday, and don’t forget to send out the call to allies across state lines. Demonstrations are scheduled in every state in America on Saturday, so make sure everyone you know is aware that their protest will be heard. [More info]