you know, I didn’t think the State Senate could disappoint me anymore after all the f*cking around earlier in the year but you know what? I was wrong. I am BEYOND disappointed. A 24-38 defeat for the marriage equality bill. Disgraceful cowardice and bigotry all round.

“a representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.” — Edmund Burke (via Dr. Lyman Hall in 1776 but Edmund Burke all the same).