Same-sex marriage licenses in Massachusetts

[judecorp]

Holy crap.

People in my new state, my "home" state, are getting equal marriage licenses as we speak.

Dear gods in heaven, history is happening /right/ /now/.

Comments

[katishna.livejournal.com]

Boy, I sure hope it lasts. They're already talking about how the legislature might block it somehow. Plus the fact that companies are changing their domestic partner and marriage benefits to man-woman couples only to get around having to offer benefits to the newly married couples. I wish I could understand the opposition to this. I really honestly just don't get what their problem is.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that it won't be long until the Big Hurrah is over and the dust settles, and people will realize that the world isn't ending and God didn't smite Massachusetts. And then maybe this will happen all over the "land of the free."

We can hope, right?

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Isn't it cool???? I was oh so very seriously tempted to say "to heck with work today" and stay in MA at least a few more hours to see it happen and cheer on the blessed couples.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That would have been awesome. I wish I was already in town so I could have gone to Cambridge at midnight to see everyone. It looked so amazing!

[michael622.livejournal.com]

The Supreme Court refused to take the case, according to a report I read. YAY! That means that unless Congress makes some changes to the Constitution, we're safe. Of course, that's only in Massachusetts ... but baby steps, right?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. And while I'm not usually a proponent of small-scale changes, I think maybe it might help if the rest of the country sees that Massachusetts isn't going to vanish or become a pillar of salt or whatever just because they allow marriage equality.

Here's hoping!

[michael622.livejournal.com]

Of course, you do realize that if there is a freak tornado or earthquake in Massachusettes, we're all doomed, right? *hee!*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

*watches the Weather Channel compulsively*

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

At least until our jagoff prez decides its morally wrong and starts stomping around with his big feet.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I would love to give that man a piece of my mind.

[serenity-coach7.livejournal.com]

It is wonderful!!! It has taken long enough **hoping it lasts** but such a joyous day for ALL people!!!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You're right - it IS a joyous day for all people. I was reading a post of a woman who took her child to City Hall in Quincy today so she could experience a little history in the making. The child is 18 months old, and what an experience.

The world needs more allies like that lady.

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

This is so cool.

And today is the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, too. I doubt the Mass SJC actually considered that, but it makes a nice coincidence. May 17 is an important day for civil rights.

What'll really be nice, though, is in a few months when people stop making a big deal about it. After the press and the meddlers from out of state go home, it'll just settle in to being routine. That's not to say it won't still be amazingly cool, a giant step forward for our society, etc., but the end result is simply that people are treated equally, and big changes like that don't actually stick until people lose whatever motivation they had not to do that to start with. As long as it's front page news, it's waving a big red flag at all the opponents. Eventually, those who are opposed to this will have to acknowledge that the world has not come crashing down because people different from themselves also got married. That's when the real victory happens. I can't wait.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone else had clued me in the other day that 05-17 was the same day as Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka. How exciting! :)

And I totally agree with you. I long for the day when young people around the country have NO IDEA that such discrimination was ever legal and supported. Maybe someday we will run out of walls that need to be taken down. I will continue to cross my fingers if you will.

Perhaps it will encourage other states to follow suit if they see that God did not smite Massachusetts.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

HURRY HURRY HURRY!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

We're coming, we're coming!

[yarnaddict.livejournal.com]

Massahusetts Rocks.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

i keep thinking the same exact thing!

[shadist.livejournal.com]

Sometimes small changes are good.


Not as good as a complete overhall of the system, but its a start.




Plus I don't think we will see a complete overhall with bush in office.

Little toad that he is.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

He is definitely a little toad.

[shadist.livejournal.com]

see there you go insulting all the little toads in the world!

;)