Atrios highlights this story about a New Mexico County Clerk who plans to start granting same-sex marraige licenses on the grounds that local law never prohibited it: Sandoval County Clerk Victoria Dunlap says the county plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples. She made the decision after asking for an opinion from the county attorney, who said New Mexico law isn't clear on the issue. He also says refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples could open the county to legal action. State law defines marriage as a civil contract between contracting parties. It doesn't mention gender. And also this story about folks from the Midwest sending flowers to gay couples in San Francisco: With several hundred, if not more, bouquets already delivered through Flowers in the Heartland, it's hard to believe that it began just Tuesday in the offices of the Minneapolis chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Gay co-workers there, Greg Scanlan and Timothy Holtz, were looking at photographs of happy newlyweds on www.sfgate.com, The Chronicle's online partner, and wishing they could somehow play a part in the historic marriages. Scanlan off-handedly remarked, "I've always said, 'If you can't be there, send flowers.' " And here I always read in the newspapers that equality was only something that over-educated Northeastern liberal millionaire Hollywood celebrities cared about... Meanwhile, looks like one Hollywood celebrity and paragon of sexual morality isn't too keen on equal rights.