Well isn't this special?

[draggonlaady]

In many states, there are laws on the books allowing them to disregard homosexual marriages performed elsewhere. I'm sure nobody's surprised by that. But in Wisconsin, the law states that you can be fined and sent to jail for claiming as valid your homosexual marriage performed elsewhere.

under 765.30(1)(a) of the Wisconsin code, "Any person residing and intending to continue to reside in this state who goes outside the state and there contracts a marriage prohibited or declared void under the laws of this state" -- and that means, you, gay couple who just got married -- can be fined up to $10,000 or imprisoned for up to 9 months, or both.

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Homophobia

[fr33f0x.livejournal.com]

I finally found an article that seems to make sense of this: http://home.wanadoo.nl/inspiritus/Homophobia.htm
Apparently "Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School" by C. J. Pascoe has something intelligent to say on the subject as well, but I've not read the book itself so far, so that is hearsay.
(Oh, and sort of by-the-by this and this, via this and this is also pretty enlightening on the positive effects of conservative sexual morals.)