My favorite line in Frank Bruni’s column in the Times today about same-sex marriage is this: It is the future.
That reality is what keeps me optimist. We’re still in a one-step-forward, two-steps-back pattern, but that will change. Frank points out why: In a Gallup poll, 70 percent of people in the 18-to34 age range favored same-sex marriage, while only 39 percent of people 55 and older did. Seventy percent? Wow.
Lina and I are a great example of the absurdity of our marriage laws. As a same-sex couple, our marriage rights are threatened even though we are the same people we were when we were married in 2004 as man and woman. (To the best of my knowledge, our marriage remains intact unless it’s legally challenged.)
Another great piece in the Times today tackles workplace discrimination and urges President Obama to make nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity a requirement for doing business with the American public. Not only am I happy to see this in general, but a decade (five years?) ago, I’m pretty sure gender identity wouldn’t have been a part of this rallying cry.
This, too, is the future. Long live the future!
She Was the Man of My Dreams 
We’re “chipping away at the boulder,” and have amassed an impressive pile of rubble that was once a solid mass.
I thought of you ab the absurdity of these laws WRT our own marriages on Sunday. We had our taxes done, which was an appointment full of fun discussions about how our marriage could possibly be valid still. There’s at least one other local couple in the same situation and they visited the same preparation office that morning.
Well, as far as I know, a legal contract doesn’t vanish but has to be overturned. We filed married last year and plan to this year. Until our marriage is legally invalidated, it is valid. But it’s definitely a gray legal area, which isn’t a great feeling. We’re in good company with millions of same-sex couples, all fighting the same battles for equal marriage rights.
And on the topic of marriage, this just in: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/07/justice/california-proposition-8/. Praying the Supreme Court weighs in and stands on the side of love.
We ultimately convinced them that our marriage remains so. It will be nice to not have to fight for that, though.
Our awesome tax preparer just took our word for it. Love her!