Icons, anyone?

So, I spent most of the day RPing and working on icons. ~_~ Here are the results:

( Changeshipping rocks my bitter little socks off. )

And that's about it, except that since Kime asked about my comp sci assignment, here's the part of it that I haven't done: ( Image Maps. )

*activist hat back on again*

Gay Marriage Banned in Virginia.

Lovely. Just freakin' lovely.

True, it was banned already but thanks to that constitutional ban, it means they don't have to recognize marriages performed outside of the state if they were for gay couples. Lovely, lovely, lovely! Since when is love separated by geographical boundaries? How can you say that someone's marriage, their recognition of love and bond to each other, is invalid when they travel outside of a set areas?

Humans are not animals and we do not live in a zoo. Setting aside one little part of the country and giving gay people normal civil rights there but claiming those rights no apply when they travel outside of that area is ridiculous. It creates a cage built not of metal but of lines on a map. Then again, I suppose that since it's humans that decide where one state ends and another begins, I suppose it makes some sense that they'd use that as a basis of discrimination.

And yes, it is discrimination. I seriously don't see how you can argue otherwise. Giving one group a set of rights and withholding it from another is discrimination. I mean really, how do you argue with that?! Someone please explain that logic to me.