One More Step
Yesterday New Hampshire became the sixth state, and fifth in New England to legalize gay marriage.
I don't as a rule follow politics with nearly the attention that I should. And I'm not proud of that. But this time, I actually got off my butt and wrote to the governor to support this law.
It's damned rare for me to actually be proud of an elected official, but. Governor Lynch's personal inclination was clearly not pro-gay-marriage. He could have declined to make a decision- simply let the bill become law without his signature. Or he could have vetoed it.
He did neither. In his own words (from the NYT article):
Mr. Lynch, who previously supported civil unions but not marriage for same-sex couples, said in a statement that he had heard “compelling arguments that a separate system is not an equal system.”
“Today,” he said, “we are standing up for the liberties of same-sex couples by making clear that they will receive the same rights, responsibilities - and respect - under New Hampshire law.”
And yeah. I also voted for him. This morning, I'm feeling pretty good about that.
I don't as a rule follow politics with nearly the attention that I should. And I'm not proud of that. But this time, I actually got off my butt and wrote to the governor to support this law.
It's damned rare for me to actually be proud of an elected official, but. Governor Lynch's personal inclination was clearly not pro-gay-marriage. He could have declined to make a decision- simply let the bill become law without his signature. Or he could have vetoed it.
He did neither. In his own words (from the NYT article):
Mr. Lynch, who previously supported civil unions but not marriage for same-sex couples, said in a statement that he had heard “compelling arguments that a separate system is not an equal system.”
“Today,” he said, “we are standing up for the liberties of same-sex couples by making clear that they will receive the same rights, responsibilities - and respect - under New Hampshire law.”
And yeah. I also voted for him. This morning, I'm feeling pretty good about that.