By BaxterWhen we were very little cats — actually, when we were just twinkles in our great-great-cats' three-lidded feline eyes — our owners lived in Maryland.
In fact, one of the greatest cats of all time came from Maryland. She did not live to write on My Cats Are Democrats, but as a blogger, Winocki — named for John Garfield's character in the classic World War II film "Air Force" — would have been hard to beat.
And were she alive today, Winocki would be very proud of her native state. With her neighbor, the District of Columbia, set to issue same-sex marriage licenses soon, Maryland now will recognize those marriages and others performed elsewhere (e.g., Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts).
It's simple logic. People live in the District and do business in Maryland, and vice versa. It would be too crazy not to do what Maryland's attorney general did today.
We cats fully expect the so-called "Christian" right to carp and complain about "back-door" acceptance of gay marriage (and we doubt whether, as with the "teabagger" moniker, they realize the irony of that expression). But they need to shut up. Marriage equality simply means equal rights for everybody. Period, end of story.
Therefore, we wait with eager anticipation to see what our future home, the Commonwealth of Virginia, does. In the meantime, we cats salute the state of Maryland, and we PURR.
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