And meanwhile in my job as a City Councilman
Tonight we tried to pass a Domestic Partnership Registry in our city. It would provide some fundamental basic rights for same sex couples. Kansas has a constitutional amendment against same sex marriage so registry was the next best thing. The news story is here if you are interested.
Long story short it failed, 4-5. I was in the minority.
A friend sent me this quote by Theodore Roosevelt after the vote, I feel every bit of it tonight. Every bit of it.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
