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TIDAL WAVE

So the Obamas weigh in.

Administration to Urge Justices to Overturn a Gay Marriage Ban

This is a big deal.

While everyone gay has wanted them to support repeal of 8, they have been politically cautious about coming on the scene.

But it is time. And, most amazingly, not a time which requires a lot of political caution.

By many counts, 61% of America thinks it is time for gay people to have the same rights as anyone else.

You know, we call it "gay marriage" but it is really "gay rights".

Gay men and women deserve to be treated as equals to anyone else. To be officially connected to those they love.

If there were no "straight marriage", we would not have to do this. But there is. Straight married people get benefits and consideration that committed gay couples do not.

And so on.

We have come a long way from the time that John and I donated our time and money to the GLAD efforts to achieve marriage equality in Boston. Way back when no one thought it would happen in our lifetime.

We were amazed to find ourselves actually married some years later in California.

And this is what makes this issue so immediate and personal for us.

Proposition 8 took rights away from us that had been granted in the California court system. Out of state money underwrote the seizure of our progress.

Only 18000 of us made it through in time. We were in that vanguard.

For a time it was thought that we might be unmarried but early on in the process, it seemed clear that this would not happen. But it still could.

SCOTUS could easily strike down our marriage.

We will go on fighting.

Labels: gay marriage, gay rights