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It’s not a secret that Governor Donald Carcieri is a first-class AssHat.  He’s earned that title several times over, but his latest veto is extra extra on the douchenozzle, even for him.

Towleroad sums it up the best:

If you’re gay and you die in Rhode Island your domestic partner won’t be able to make funeral arrangements for you because Governor Donald Carcieri just vetoed a bill providing for that.

Why?

According to Carcieri, “This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage, which is not the preferred way to approach this issue. If the General Assembly believes it would like to address the issue of domestic partnerships, it should place the issue on the ballot and let the people of the state of Rhode Island decide.”

((This makes me so crazy, I don’t even have the WORDS))

I also want to note this bill affects ALL unmarried partners, straight or queer, but it was targeted for veto by the Governor as being part of the so-called larger Gay Agenda.  This bill passed in the RI assembly 63-1, and those are not all people who support same-sex marriage.  I think that several of them just realized that the ONLY reason NOT to pass this law would be to go out of your way to deny fair treatment and make a point about same-sex relationships.

Steven Colbert does a pretty good job commenting on how absurd this is with his own special brand of over-the-top satire:

Those of us in RI who are furious, are attending a  Vigil and Funeral Procession Against the Veto happening tonight at the Statehouse.    I’ve been trying to spread the word this week by word-of-mouth and other mediums, but hadn’t gotten around to posting about it.   So I’m hoping that this is not the first you’ve heard of it, if you are in RI.   (I’m fairly sure all 2 of my local readers are people I speak with often and have already heard).

Everyone else out there, I just wanted you to know this was happening!