Dear Friend and Reader,
As I watched highlights of the vp debates on YouTube, I was struck with sadness after hearing Biden and Palin’s exchange on the topic of gay marriage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZYWY3UnNk[/youtube]
Neither of them has any interest in full legal equality for same-sex couples. I knew their policies already, but to hear it stated so firmly: “no,” made me feel quite worthless and undeserving. I wasn’t alive for the debates over Loving v. Virginia, which legalized marriage between different ethnicities, but I’d imagine I know how they feel.
I’m not particularly interested in marriage myself, it’s more the fact that everyone around me — from Britney Spears and Keven Federline to my close college buddy who works as a dominatrix and recently hooked up with a much older guy who doesn’t wake up until six in the evening — has the right to get hitched and I don’t.
Why are they allowed into this “sanctimonious” institution when measly old me, in the same, mostly-stable partnership for three years, sits around the family table with all these other couples (who are straight), and babysits for her siblings’ children, but is stuck in a group with Ellen Degeneres and her lovely wife (only in the state of California) Portia, with no right to “make it honest” in any nationally-recognized sense?
This brings me to the children part.