Justice for ALL - Let's Celebrate!

As many blogs as I’ve written over the past decade about marriage equality, I figure I should say something today. But what to say, the Supreme Court said it all. Equality under the law. I just say THANK YOU. Thank you for inviting everyone to the table. Not just some, but all.

I don’t care about anyone’s religious arguments. Civil marriage has nothing to do with religion. What you allow in your mosques, temples, and churches is another issue. But in this nation, all citizens should have the freedom to wed the person they choose. That has always been my argument and now, I finally lived to see the historic day when it became reality. 

Being with a female partner for over 20 years, I can tell you all about the struggle being real. Being fired from jobs, denied hospital visits, schools not allowing my authority for our son, receiving violent threats, not being invited to certain events, being shunned and banished…just thinking of what today means for everyone who has ever been made to feel this way…now we ARE invited. We don’t have to get married but if we want to, the freedom to marry is THERE. America the Beautiful. Thank you for celebrating all of us. The wait has been long but today makes it all worthwhile. After years of being denied, the acceptance is heart-warming and long overdue. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

May our children and future generations never forget what we all went through to make this possible, the visibility, the love, the determination but may they also never have to feel the rejection and devalue that we have felt. Love Wins! Equality Wins! It’s been a very good day. Goodnight.