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Decatur Deb4/04/2014 8:29:02 pm PDT

re: #254 calochortus

Once upon a time, I spent precisely no time thinking about same sex marriage. Then civil unions came on the scene and I figured that would be fine if they were in fact the same as a civil marriage (I’m not religious and have no opinion on what should constitute marriage as a sacrament.) But of course they weren’t.
When the first (pre-legal) same sex marriages were held in San Francisco they were naturally featured on TV, and seeing the way those people looked at each other, I realized how much marriage mattered to them.

I realized it would have mattered to me if I had been told I couldn’t marry my husband, although in some ways the fact that I could marry him made is less important (does that make sense?)

I am now very committed to marriage equality, and I suspect I am not alone. Being perceived as being against same sex marriage is a losing proposition for a business.

One of our lizards has posted summaries of how deeply marriage, not civil union, is woven into US/State law. She listed a hundred or two instances. Fact is, simple economic justice cannot be served by the compromise term.