A step in the right direction

I needed some good news today, to distract me from the bad news that had me shouting and pounding on walls.

From The Washington Post :

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) declared Wednesday that Maryland will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and that its agencies should immediately begin affording gay married couples the same rights as heterosexual ones.

With Gansler's decision, Maryland in effect joins the District and a handful of states including New York that...