This country seems to becoming more and more of a joke. There were two articles in the Metro newspaper this morning that caught my attention:<\/p>\n
1 – The City Manager (mayor) of Largo, Florida, has been in that position for 14 years. He must have been doing something right if he’s kept the job for that long, right? Well, last week he announced that he was going to procede with a sex change operation. Less than a week later the city council fired him because of that. Not because he stole money, not because he wasn’t representing his constituents, not because he was doing anything illegal. But solely because he was going to have a sex-change operation. In Massachusetts (and many other states) he’d be protected…in Florida, he can be fired. Makes me sick.<\/p>\n
2 – There is apparently an existing law in North Dakota that forbids unmarried\u00a0men and women\u00a0from living together. I remember seeing something about this on the news a year or so ago when a woman was living with her boyfriend (and their children, mind you) and they were fighting to be able to live together (the whole town was against them). However, I think that case was in another state, and it was just a town that had such archaic laws. I was completely unaware that there was an entire state out there that forbids unmarried couples from living together. Ironically, this kind of helps the gay couples out there since it essentially encourages same-sex cohabitation – but I’m sure that wasn’t their goal. Anyway, if a man and woman live together unmarried in North Dakota, it’s considered a sex crime…punishable by law. Seriously!<\/p>\n
Can you believe that? Fortunately, the state is seeking to change this.<\/p>\n
And Romney thinks France is bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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