Julie and Hillary threaten the universe!
Today, a revolution is starting thanks to two self-described "soccer moms" in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston. Julie Wendich and Hillary Smith fell in love in 1985, and had a daughter, Annie, in 1996. When five-year-old Annie challenged their moms by saying "You two don't love each other. If you loved each other, you'd be married," Julie and Hillary filed a lawsuit in April 2001 challenging Massachusetts law prohibiting same-sex marriage. It was their lawsuit which ultimately resulted in the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that will allow Julie and Hillary (along with many other gay couples) to get married today.
So this is the radical, freakish, "homosexual agenda," right? Hardly. It's a question of two loving, committed parents wanting to have the same benefits of marriage that any other person is entitled to under the law. It's also something they're doing not only for themselves, but for the daughter they're raising together as responsible parents. This is going to be a stabilizing force in society, and not some threat to "traditional" marriage.
Without question, those who pursue a "radical heterosexual agenda" will try to prohibit same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and everywhere else. (The soonest they can attempt to change the Massachusetts constitution is 2006, and by that time a LOT of gay couples are going to be legally married.) But as more Americans see a non-threatening face of gay marriage, the harder it will be to untie the marriage knot. In addition, polls show that younger Americans are much more accepting of same-sex relationships, and that a slight majority of Americans now oppose a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Time is on our side. At least I think it is.
So this is the radical, freakish, "homosexual agenda," right? Hardly. It's a question of two loving, committed parents wanting to have the same benefits of marriage that any other person is entitled to under the law. It's also something they're doing not only for themselves, but for the daughter they're raising together as responsible parents. This is going to be a stabilizing force in society, and not some threat to "traditional" marriage.
Without question, those who pursue a "radical heterosexual agenda" will try to prohibit same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and everywhere else. (The soonest they can attempt to change the Massachusetts constitution is 2006, and by that time a LOT of gay couples are going to be legally married.) But as more Americans see a non-threatening face of gay marriage, the harder it will be to untie the marriage knot. In addition, polls show that younger Americans are much more accepting of same-sex relationships, and that a slight majority of Americans now oppose a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Time is on our side. At least I think it is.