I really enjoyed Obama's comments on the HRC/Logo discussion about gay marriage. He said that he wants to give the LGBT community the right to be unioned in the eyes of the law, in the same way that hetero couples are unioned in the eyes of the law. He made it very clear that the concept of "marriage" should remain in the church and not the state, and that each church can decide for itself whether they wish to perform same-sex ceremonies
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This is a big issue for me - Sweden has had "partnership registration" for gay couples for a while now, but we're still fighting to make marriage gender-neutral. I, too, think it should all be civil unions - and the spiritual element or blessing could be added afterwards. It's more equal that way. But of course, the fundamentalists scream at the very thought - oh no, don't equate us with 'them' and 'their ways'! The mere attitude pisses me off
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I have a lot of thoughts on this, but don't have a whole lot of time to go into it as I have to leave for an appointment soon. The only thing I would like to say is that I took my husband's name I'm sure in part because it was tradition and that's what you're "supposed to do", also because I love him and I wanted it to be apparent to the world that we were a family, but mostly because I wanted to shed any sign of my father's control/ownership of me. My husband and I are getting separated, and may eventually end up divorced, but I WILL NOT go back to my maiden name for anything.
Lesse... I didn't wear a veil, I wore a wreath of tea roses. Both my parents walked with me (mostly to hold me up and keep me from shaking). I wore a simple ivory white dress only because I loved the color. The vows were changed to treat us as equal partners. And my name is hyphenated with his. His family wanted a traditional Jewish ceremony, but screw that. My mother taught me how to be my own woman, dammit!
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alway read the fine print. :-p
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