marriage equality

[likethebeer]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatches/2013/03/supreme_court_proposition_8_oral_argument_gay_marriage_will_help_thousands.html
Justice Kennedy says: "There are some 40,000 children in California . . . that live with same-sex parents. They want their parents to have full recognition and full status. The voice of these children is important, don’t you think?"

From my own, brief, observation, it's not so much a desire on the part of my niece and nephew; it's like (in a voice of total disbelief), "Wait - I don't understand - why is there a problem with this?... No really - I don't understand - what's the problem?" It's the same thing with their total disbelief that there used to be a law that white & black people couldn't get married.

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[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

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[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[immemor.livejournal.com]

I’m with your niece and nephew, I don’t understand why this is a problem.

The people 100 years from now are going to hate us. They’ll say, “Those idiots melted the ice caps AND they were bigots. What a backward time.”

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

If everyone just felt the way I did when I was, I don't know, 12 (which is much like the confusion voiced by my niece), we'd all be better.

I don't know if they'll hate us as much as they'll really think a lot of people were dumb.