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A big day in California. Particularly the place considered, after Palm Springs, as gay central.

Hundreds got married. They do not have the count.

California Couples Line Up to Marry After Stay on Same-Sex Marriage Is Lifted

Too late for those Prop 8 bastards who filed a challenge to lifting the stay with the SCOTUS the day before.

But we are forgetting them and their last ditch skirmish attempts. They have lost. A great drubbing. The knuckle draggers, the christianists, the mormons and the catholics. The bullies that have always harried and pushed us and, ironically, brought us up, some of us, to hate ourselves.

But I will not re-enter that battle.

I am tired of it.

We are filled with joy today. It is still going on. Hear the bells ring?

Glory, glory, hallelujah, to coin a phrase.

We do not hate ourselves any more. Years of politics, pride parades, coming out out out have taken their toll on the forces of hate. The arc of freedom.

We only had to come to believe in ourselves for others to believe in us.

Marriage equality, including the right to not get married, is at the heart of gay rights. Our brothers and sisters, some of them, thought otherwise, but having finally joined us, all together, we can stand truly proud, and when the celebrating is over, humble in the best way. Not humiliated. Humbled with our gratitude for our fellows and our times.

I repeat. I never expected to be this or see this. Married. Right. Righteous. Right on, baby!

Labels: marriage equality