**thank you, top 100 diaries clickers! you have taken me from page four to page two in two days. let's see if i can regain my rightful spot on the first page...er, let's see if i can go higher. yeah. because it's not about popularity...er, let the entry begin!**
president bush, we hate you!
so one corner of the judicial system has managed to pull its head out of its ass and notice that there is no constitutional reason why same-sex married couples should not be afforded the same rights as heterosexual married couples. i think i speak for all of us when i say, "duh." it is completely beyond my comprehension that people are fighting about this in open courts, in congress and the senate. still, massachusetts, we love you!
and of course our darling white house resident had to weigh in. "Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman," he said. "Today's decision ... violates this important principle. I will work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage." president bush, we hate you!
i hate to rain on anyone's parade...this is a fabulous, wonderful, landmark case, it really is. but it's got me thinking. is marriage going to be the required norm, now between straight and gay couples? will it be required to share benefits, to take care of a partner? and really, is the new legislation that much more liberating, or that much more binding? what about those of us, gay and straight, who want to cohabitate? who think that marriage is fine as a civil institution, but shouldn't be a binding legal one? can't we come up with a better solution, like a binding legal registration of who gets what kind of benefits, who can file joint tax returns, who's responsible for you if you can't make your own decisions? maybe something that separates the security from the "sanctity" will keep mr. bush's panties from bunching up so much when the time comes to sign it into law.
anyone interested in a non-marriagable long-term hyphenated-to-death life-partnership? i'm just sayin...
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