Something about this gruesome case caught my eye:The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate.Gays can't marry in Kentucky, but post-surgical transgenders can? With all due respect to the T in the GLBT community, the current state of gender-reassignment surgery is for all practical purposes cosmetic, since we can't (yet) alter anyone's genes to that extent. So these two people, who are both genetically male, can wed... why? Because there's only one penis involved?
This from a state that has bans on gay marriage enshrined in their constitution as well as in their civil and (at one time), criminal codes. This kind of thing illustrates both the absurdity of anti-gay legislation and the enormous loopholes that the legislative process leaves in these kind of ventures. What Kentucky is essentially saying is that marriage is fine so long as one of them looks like a woman and the other like a man. In other words, it's not about family values or bearing children, it's about appearances.
(And, likely, only Noah will get the reference.)
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