Over the past two days the OC Register reports that 233 Orange County couples picked up their marriage licensees - I’m assuming the quite a few of those were for same-sex couples. Many of those people were also married in civil ceremonies - although with idiot protesters at the courthouse the term “civil” is something of a misnomer.

Anywho, The Register ran a chaste picture of “man-hands“ that linked to some nice video about same-sex marriage in OC. Fair enough. Seems like a good representation of the events, while getting the idea of gay marriage across to the reader. Thankfully they opted not to take the route that LAist traveled, which was decidedly a half-naked-go-go-pride-studs-that-grab-your-attention-so-you-will-read-this-boring-article ploy. Of course I clicked. Nothing says ”gay people are basically the same everyone else“ like a picture that gives the average reader a scorching case of body dysmorphia.

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