I'm melting!

[silkenmaiden]

Tomorrow it's supposed to cool down! All the way to the upper 90's, oh boy! It was one of those days where you just feel gross. I freshened up into new sets of underwear twice before I finally just took a cold shower. It was glorious. Really, so wonderful... and then I remembered we're soon to be put on rationing so I cut it short. But my hair

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Re: not to make you my "token conservative lj friend" or anything haha...

[silkenmaiden]

It's such a damned complicated issue if only because it becomes so personal, not specifically for me, but for my friends. I know some people who will want to get married when they find "the one", but others aren't interested. Just like a lot of our straight friends, no surprise there. So many people already live as married couples and it doesn't really make a difference to me if they are legally allowed to be married. So why not?
I'm not sure legalizing marriage is the way to go. Gavin must have been delusional when he said that as California goes so goes everyone else. Even outside of the Bay Area and LA this state is different from the political followings of Gavintopia. There is already legalized domestic partnership and so long as that is afforded the same benefits of marriage (whether that's taxes, inheritance, spousal/parental rights) then that seems like a safer way to assure that the rights entailed with that stay safe. I can understand "separate, but equal" isn't just equal, but I would favor a more cautious approach to avoid the backlash you mentioned.