Hooray for gay marriage in Massachusetts!

It's about damn time.

As a bisexual individual with an xy male partner and an 18 month old, I look pretty hetero. But I'm not. I'm as queer as a three dollar bill.

Why does the fundy-influenced government have a right to tell me which gender I can or cannot make a civil commitment to? Where is the logical reasoning in that? Thirty-four percent of lesbian households in the US have children under the age of 18 living in them. Twenty-two percent of US gay male households have children under 18. Over 600,000 homosexual couples identified themselves as such, in the 2000 US census. That's 1.2 million gay people (who weren't afraid of letting the government know they're gay)who cannot legally marry and in many states second-parent adopt. It's a travesty of American ideals.

I think Genesis says it well:
"Land of Confusion", Invisible Touch, 1986

This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

Wake up, America. You can't stop love. You can't stop 1.2 million of your citizens from demanding equal rights under the law. Get used to it.