Fluorescent Dreams Wax Cylinders - Four down, forty-six to go.

(Recent Entries) (Archive) (Friends) (User Info) (ChipUni's FurAffinity Page)

News aggregators: (Newsmap: Google news, graphically delivered) (Yahoo News)
Good News Sources: (BBC News) (Christian Science Monitor) (New York Times) (Washington Post)

7th of April, 2009

10:41 - Four down, forty-six to go.

Previous Entry Add to Memories Tell a Friend Next Entry

Vermont becomes Fourth State to Legalize Gay Marriage

One quote from the article made me tear up:


Mr. Dostis said he and Mr. Kletecka will celebrate their 25th year together in September.

"Is that a proposal?" Mr. Kletecka asked.

"Yeah," Mr. Dostis replied. "Twenty-five years together, I think it's time we finally got married."


I have not been following the Wall Street Journal. I don't know their opinion on gay marriage. But that they printed the article Why Gay Marriage Matters gives me hope.

Tags:
(Leave a comment)

Comments:

[User Picture]
From:[info]baxil
Date:2009-Apr-7 06:10 pm (UTC)
(Link)
Well, technically: five down, 46 to go. California had it right for a while. Here's to hoping that it can turn around quickly, either on a constitutional level or with another ballot measure.

Congratulations to Vermonters!
(Reply) (Thread)
[User Picture]
From:[info]jeran
Date:2009-Apr-7 07:49 pm (UTC)
(Link)
That's the nasty part about Prop. 8: since it's a change to the state constitution it can't be undone except by another constitutional change.

Myself, I'd love it if the courts affirmed Prop. 8's language. All of it. Including the part where it does not have any language exempting marriage licenses from the provisions of article 1, section 7.

After all, civil unions were argued before a court to be equivalent to marriage (that's how Prop. 22 got allowed in), and if it's good enough for some citizens it should be good enough for all, no?
(Reply) (Parent) (Thread)
[User Picture]
From:[info]chipuni
Date:2009-Apr-7 07:59 pm (UTC)
(Link)
I don't think that's a good case.

The other side could say:

- Civil unions are equivalent to marriage.
- The California constitution now says "SEC. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Therefore, only civil unions between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
(Reply) (Parent) (Thread)
[User Picture]
From:[info]merle_
Date:2009-Apr-7 07:23 pm (UTC)
(Link)
It makes me sad that Iowa and Vermont are more progressive than our state is. Very good for them, and possibly Prop 8 passing here caused people in other states to realize they need to take a more active role, but still.
(Reply) (Thread)
[User Picture]
From:[info]enegim
Date:2009-Apr-7 09:37 pm (UTC)
(Link)
Yes.

I have a friend in Massachusetts who got married a month after the court decision.

She and her partner had been together for 40 years. When marriage equality was affirmed by the court, her partner said "let's do it right now, before they take it away again." We went to the reception five months later; the couple are both community activists, and the speeches and tears from their friends were amazing, and hit me in the gut, far beyond where discussion and argument had taken me before.

May justice spread throughout the land, and rapidly...
(Reply) (Thread)
[User Picture]
From:[info]thewerewolf
Date:2009-Apr-9 03:54 am (UTC)
(Link)
I'm very pleased with the Vermont decision. That's one that's inarguably a win for the gay community.
(Reply) (Thread)