What a week here in Nebraska - a federal judge rules against Nebraska's discriminatory gay marriage ban and the Governor (who happens to have an openly gay sister) and the State Atty General rush to the Appeals court to stay the judges ruling and the Appeals Court does so.  So as a state, we had about 48 hours of trying to actually do something right and fit in with the country - just to get kicked back into being Bible thumping, scared of the world, necks.

If you believe this is a religious issue, you are reading you Bible wrong.  If you feel this is infringing on your rights as a Nebraska citizen, then you should be able to understand why the people who are fighting for this to move forward feel the same. If you feel like you are being a bigot/or prejudiced, you are.  And I will repeat my previous thoughts - these people are already gay, living together, and raising families, they are simply trying to get equivalent rights to other couples - how in the world does that affect you and your family?

2nd political thought of the week - we have had 3 police involved fatal shootings in the last month in and around Omaha/Lincoln, with 2 in the last week.  The most recent appears completely justified, the prior one the guy was drunk .148 BAC and could not be controlled by 4 officers even though unarmed, and the first one was a female who was threatening 4 officers with a steak knife. 
To all law officers everywhere, I appreciate deeply what you do, the difficulty of your jobs, putting yourself in harms way, and dealing with what you do.  That being said, if a single individual is the target of your pursuit, no one else is in harms way or potential of harm, and a sliver of a chance exists that if you just be patient and let this person/conflict run its course instead of pressing the situation, stand back and take 2 more minutes to see if you can resolve something without shooting someone.
I am also taken aback by how many law enforcement people I have talked with that continue to discuss shooting at body mass and continuing to fire until the situation is resolved.  Both the female suspect and the drunk guy in my examples above were surrounded by 4 officers at a range of 20 feet.  My mom could have shot them in the leg from that range.  This is a training issue coming from the police force itself.