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05/16/2008: "Finally!"

Just a quick veer off the usual topic around here - vainglorious obsession with myself and my life - to tip my hat to the California Supreme Court. Unless you've been living under a rock you've probably already heard that they voted 4-3 yesterday to lift the ban on same-sex marriage in my state. To that I can only say, "It's about goddamn time!"

I won't get into a rant about my views on allowing two people who love each other and wish deeply to make a public commitment to each other (and, let's be frank, receive the legal and financial benefits granted to one-man-one-woman marriages). But I guess you can probably divine my stance on the topic. This isn't about me, though, since it's not my personal issue - for me it's all theory.

Just let me tell you that yesterday morning, as I was walking to my classroom, one of my co-workers came flying towards me. This woman was my partner teacher when I interned and I've never known a better teacher. She is amazing. She's the kind of person who embodies what it means to be a teacher. She is committed, compassionate and involved with her students and her community. I have immense respect for her. She happens to be gay. She and her partner have two wonderful children who they are teaching to be kind, thoughtful, really great kids. And the wedding that these two woman had in San Francisco four years ago is finally - finally! - recognized by the state. She was bursting with joy.

Why shouldn't she be allowed that happiness? I'd be really interested to hear a good argument for taking that away from her. Because I don't think there is one.

(Tune in next week when we return to our regularly programmed schedule of baby updates, home improvement, and general self-centeredness on my part).

Replies: 1 Comment - Go read it!

on Friday, May 16th, Brat said

You can't be the self-centered one! I'm the self-centered one! :confused: P.S. Yay for California!!! Now will it ever happen in Missouri? ;)