Domestic Spying & Domestic Partnership
What’s the difference? Oh, the former is illegally allowed, while the latter is campaigned against on a regular basis – both by the man in charge.
This bit of news was slightly overshadowed today: “Northern Ireland, which in 1982 was the last region in the United Kingdom to legalize homosexuality, is now the first to grant gay couples the same legal protections as married heterosexuals. Scotland was to follow on Tuesday, and England and Wales on Wednesday.
The measure is already in force in many other European countries. In the United States, more than a dozen states recognize some form of domestic partnerships or civil unions, but 11 states voted in November to ban gay marriage.”
Why did we leave England again? Someone remind me. Please.
And then: did you hear about Naqsha Bibi? First she was a miracle; now they’re punching holes in her story.
Sorry, checking the news is all I have time for at the moment. Last week of the semester and other jazz. Peace to you during this crazed week of holiday preparations!
p.s. Check out new pics on Flickr.
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
AMY KING 
December 20th, 2005 at 5:22 am eI have a Fourth of July tradition — every year I sit down and write a respectful letter to the Queen of England on my best water-marked stationary with my best pen. I ask her and I beg her to please, please, take us back (us meaning America). She never responds.
December 20th, 2005 at 11:59 am eYes, it was quite a significant event yesterday. What I think was most encouraging was just how little controversy it has stirred, there hasn’t even been a real debate just a general acceptance that this is the right way forward.
You’d always be welcome to come home to the motherland
December 22nd, 2005 at 3:57 am eHey Amy- speaking of gay marriage in England, I heard Elton John is getting married to his long time lover in Guild Hall in Windsor. It should be a fab wedding.
I hope you are well. Happy Holidays.
I’’ve been posting a series of Christmas/solstice/holiday poems this week. Please some by and say hello, and if you like, spread the word. These are poems I’ve written over the years for my xmas cards. Alas this year will be a fallow year for my home made cards and poem. But, knowing myself, I may suddenly get inspired, like tomorrow night.
seeya,
G