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01:43 pm
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Another step forward
California high court stands up for marriage rights for all. Congratulations to my many in-state gay and lesbian friends*! Time to start the 30-day countdown for your marriage certificates ...
February 16, 2004 |
This is one that hits close to home for me, too, because it was gay marriage that led to my (heterosexual) marriage with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kadyg. No, seriously: Our first date was passing out candy and flowers to the wedding parties in San Francisco as same-sex couples lined up for marriage licenses on Valentine's Day weekend, 2004. Turned out to be a pretty good omen, although it took us a year and a half to realize it and give in.
Next up will be the fight against the state constitutional amendment. It'll be a bumpy ride. Its predecessor Proposition 22** captured 61 percent of the vote in 2000, and as far as I can tell, the amendment only needs a 50 percent majority despite its more dramatic effects.
Here's to hoping eight years -- and the complete disintegration of the national GOP -- makes an 11-point difference. As I've observed, gay marriage has the weight of history behind it, but in the short term it remains to be seen how much the American public can be persuaded to value compassion over tradition.
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* And coworkers. And boss. :)
** Or the "Knight Initiative," named after its primary sponsor, Sen. Pete Knight -- who disowned his son over the issue. And then died. It's uncertain whether they ever reconciled.
Current Location: ~spiral
Current Mood:  proud
Current Music: Radiohead, "The National Anthem"
Tags: wedding
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08:12 pm
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I am such a geek.
Our friends auburnselkie and aubwriter got married this last weekend. (It seems to be a good year for it. I think kadyg and I started a trend.)
aubwriter is a longtime role-player, and the four of us at one point had gotten together in an attempt to start a campaign. (I got to run a "Son of Mars Needs Llamas" TOON one-shot game, but that's neither here nor there.) So when it came time to assemble a wedding card ...
My path was obvious. I created the
WEDDING RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLE (2d6)
- Jukebox of Many Things
- Inebriated party guest. (Use stats for half-orc)
- Flower arrangement. (10% chance of a sentient rose bush posing as arrangement; 3 HD, THAC0 16, d6+1 dmg)
- Buffet table. Food heals as Cure Light Wounds. d6: 1-5 catered, 6 home-cooked.
- 1d4 in-laws. (Use stats for ogre)
- A level 1d8 cleric of PC's faith.
- Bridesmaid (4 HP, THAC0 20, d3 cute damage)
- Champagne bottle. One-shot ranged weapon, d4+1 dmg, x5 against chandeliers.
- Photographer. (Camera is +3 to hit, damage: blinds for 2 turns)
- Two rings. (roll randomly on Magic Item Table)
- A wandering dragon and princess stop by to pay their respects.
Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: Avalon Rising, "The Great Selkie"
Tags: roleplaying, wedding
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04:28 am
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Late Valentine's notes
1) To whoever posted on page 10 of the B's of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) 21406: Thank you for making my day. I hope I can continue to be the exemplar you see.
2) In case you missed it earlier -- I made a friends-locked post with full details on our wedding reception (Sunday, Feb. 26, Penn Valley, CA). I'm mentioning it here for two reasons: One, please RSVP at that post if you are hoping to attend (accurate head count will help us keep folks entertained and fed). Two, I am such a monumental ditz about my friends list that I'm sure I have longtime acquaintances who are interested in coming but can't see the post. If you're in that category, please mail me @ baxildragon at gmail for details. (Nonny, I'm looking at you. ;)) I don't mean to exclude anyone, but the planning has just been such a headache I'm lucky I got advance notice at all.
3) I am happy to report that Valentine's Day seems to have taken on greater meaning to me as an anniversary than it ever did as a celebration of partnership. Yesterday, Kady and I spent a quiet day doing normal things (and eating heart-shaped pizza);  meanwhile, it was two years ago to the day that we were privileged to witness San Francisco's groundbreaking gay marriages firsthand.
The scene was a happy, vibrant chaos. Hundreds of couples -- over 4,000 by the time a higher law managed to clamp down on the city some days later -- stood in a line snaking around City Hall, braving light rain and a tiny handful of protesters in order to get official recognition of their love. Hundreds of others -- couples, individuals, groups, gay, straight -- cheered every pair that emerged gripping their marriage license. Media wandered everywhere. Bystanders passed out Valentine's Day candy and flowers to the people waiting in line. (Kady and I, who were at the time merely romantically-involved coworkers, were two of them.)
It was as pure a celebration of love as I've ever been privileged to witness. As Kady said at the time, "There's something so simplistic about the desire to join with another person legally and in front of witnesses that it's hard to believe anyone would deny it. Most of the couples we saw had been together for a good length of time and were clearly part of loving families with everything that implies. The first couple to get a marriage license were a pair of ladies who had been together 51 years - that's a marriage in any book and deserves to be recognized. We should all be so lucky." And judging by the fact that people from all over the country and beyond were sending flowers, clearly that sentiment connected with a wider audience.
(For bonus ironic amusement, she finished that post by stating, "[I] ultimately decided the world isn't ready for a Kady/Baxil merger.")
Anyway, if Valentine's Day is meant to stand for anything, that was it right there. Selfless love. Crowds of people (and even Frank Chu) coming together for the mere purpose of cheering and celebrating the recognition of that feeling.
It still sticks with me today as one of the happiest holidays I've ever spent.
Current Mood: reminiscent
Current Music: "Night on Disco Mountain," Sat. Night Fever sndtrk
Tags: wedding
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11:40 pm
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Marriage Watch: And now the reading of the minds will commence.
I normally stay far, far away from soda. I don't need the caffeine addiction, I don't like the carbonation, and I could probably do without the tooth rot. But, like any drug, there are times when it comes in genuinely useful, and once in a while I will drink a soda specifically for the caffeine jolt. (Since I don't normally touch it in any form, a single soda's worth will actually have the desired effects on me.)
Friday afternoon, running short on sleep and long on work, I trundled upstairs to the vending machine and bought a can. This was noteworthy enough that I IM'ed dear wife kadyg at work to comment on it. And thus Teh Spooky began:
[14:27] me: mmm, tasty tasty caffeine.
[14:28] kady: What are you drinking? I'm having a diet Dr. Pepper.
[14:31] me: Me too, oddly enough.
[14:31] me: I needed the boost and it was the least objectionable drink in the vending machine.
[14:31] kady: Awww, we're soda twins.
[14:32] me: I just find it funny that the one time this year I'm drinking soda pop you happen to be independently having one too. We'll have to start completing each others' sentences.
[14:37] kady: And this is the first bottle of pop I've bought in months.
In Kady's words, "Yep, we are just too fucking cute. :-P"
Current Mood:  spoooooooky!
Current Music: Joe Rinoie, "Synchronized Love" (DDR 4th Mix)
Tags: magic, wedding
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04:32 pm
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That's *Mr.* Baxil to you
lysana beat us all on the wedding updates when she weighed in by phone post here from down at the river. My new wife sums up here.
And this just about sums it all up:
(More wedding pics to come as we actually get them organized and -- in some cases -- developed.)
We're not done yet, not by a long shot. A few hours of down time, and then we'll all retire to a celebratory dinner over at the Five Mile House restaurant. Then back to the flat for a good ol' fashioned New Year's Eve party with happy wedding overtones.
And then, in February, we do it all over again. This was simply the small, private we're-doing-it-for-us day; the wedding reception and renewal of vows will be in late February. Details to follow later on the Bax-and-Kady-are-married-party; we'll have to take a week or two to get our feet back underneath us.
In case you have to make any reservations or travel arrangements, it will be Sunday, Feb. 26, here in beautiful Gass Valley/Nevada City, CA.
Current Mood:  married
Current Music: Johnny Cash, "Ring of Fire"
Tags: wedding
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11:10 am
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Wedding follies: Liveblogging the morning
T-minus two ??? hours ...
Our photographer, roaminrob, appears to be stuck at his home in North San Juan by a mudslide that's blocked off two of the only routes back to civilization. ("SR 49: IS CLOSED FROM 6.8 MI NORTH OF NEVADA CITY (NEVADA CO) TO 1.8 MI SOUTH OF CAMPTONVILLE (YUBA CO) - DUE TO MUD & ROCK SLIDES") He's trying road #3 of, literally, the only five routes to us that don't involve overland hiking. If that fails, #4 is through the high Sierra and is virtually guaranteed to be a waste of time. Barely past 11:00 and already the day is getting off to an auspicious start.
The day is all sorts of windy, and can't quite make up its mind as to whether it's going to get back to raining or not. Given that, we will (as expected) be abandoning the "let's go get married out in the woods with snowshoes" idea. Our backup plan it is: The covered bridge down at Bridgeport.
... Except that road #2 Rob tried was also the road down through Bridgeport, and it was washed out too.
On his side of the river, anyway. There's a possibility it might still be accessible from our end. kadyg and necama are taking a scouting run down to the bridge to see. I'm sitting here holding the fort, waiting for our other guests to arrive.
Except we'd talked about assembling at 11:00, it's now 11:20, and I haven't heard a word from any of the other folk yet.
Perhaps surprisingly, none of this is bugging me. I know better; I've worked conventions for too many years. No matter how well you plan, no matter how many contingencies you make, no matter how much leeway you give yourself ... when the rubber hits the road, there is always going to be some sort of crisis. As they say, no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.
A nice, romantic getaway into the snow would have made for a sappy story for the grandkids*, but this way, I suspect we at least get a good bon mot or three out of it. And we'll be laughing right along, too, if everyone else can keep their heads together.
Updates:
11:35 - The officiants check in by phone. Just getting a little late start to the day. No worries; they're not the only ones.
11:45 - Kevyn shows up here at the flat, expecting to be the last man in. Little does he know.
11:50 - Rob calls in on his cell phone, in town and about five minutes away. The Malakoff Diggins road, he says was "impassable to any car except mine." Sounds like there's going to be a story there to write up on his LJ so I can link to it later (hint, hint). So our guest list is full again. Now we just have to wait for the scouting report, and for everyone to arrive.
Noon - Kady and Brian return. The road to Bridgeport is clear ... although the place is full of gawkers. It has been decided that Kevyn and Brian, who are both big guys, will have to be the wedding bouncers.
In other words, things are back on track.
12:30 -  A bunch of folks waiting around at the house; Rob taking his brother to work; Kady and I getting dressed. "Hey, Bax, you should add a picture to the liveblog." "Of what?" "Anything." I grab the camera and press the shutter trigger. Nothing. I turn the camera toward myself. "Camera, why are you not work --" *FLASH* "--ing?"
1:00 - And we're off! About an hour late, but we deliberately got everyone over here an hour early, so we're basically exactly on time. Kady is bridal now (don't ask me; I have no idea, that's what she asked me to write). Wish us luck.
3:45 - My new wife and I, and our wedding party, went down to the river under heavy cloud cover. Got married. Sun dutifully broke through clouds 15 minutes later, and the day ever since has been gorgeous.
Opinion seems divided whether it was meant ironically ("ha! I withheld the sun until you were finished!") or whether it was meant as a portent of happiness for our new married life. I think I'm in the latter camp; the ceremony itself was short, meaningful, and a little intimidating (out of a sense of newness, but that's about all). Spirits lightened after we were finished and we could relax and simply wander around the area and all be happy.
Now that all the suspense is over with, see next post.
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* Well, anyway, the grandneeblings**. Kady's brother Caleb has a boy already, and someday he will grow up and quite probably have kids of his own.
** "Neebling" = "niece or nephew." Just as "sibling" = "brother or sister."
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Way It Goes," Carnival of Faith
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02:51 am
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T-minus 12 hours
Dammit. I'm sitting here typing in the dark the night before my wedding, trying to do a little bit of reminiscing, and the browser ate my post.
I was talking about how 2005 has been a very definitional year for me. A decade ago, in 1995, I turned 18 and went out to the wilderness for a month for an Outward Bound course. It was a powerful experience and quite a rite of passage. In much the same way, this year's events -- getting married being one of the big ones; but also the planning I'm doing for next year (sorry to be mysterious; I've been sort of a flake on sharing my 2006 ambitions), and getting out of debt -- are bringing me to a real crossroads, where the future is opening up in front of me.
I don't yet know what I want to do*, but I do know that I like the person I am and the things I've been working toward.
Wedding prep is going nicely. kadyg, blackfyr, lysana, necama, kevynjacobs, emmorium and I all had a lovely evening of socializing and dinner here. (roaminrob is drivng back from a trip and will join us in the morning.) On top of that, blackfyr helped me upgrade the OS on this computer, so my wireless card works again. Yay!
It's raining like a thing what creates lots of rain here, so it is looking highly likely that tomorrow we'll simply wimp out and go hold the ceremony at a nearby covered bridge. No wacky and romantic hike-out-into-the-snow deal. Ah well, such is life. We're not going to be foolhardy enough to try holding a wedding ceremony outdoors and away from any usable shelter while it is actively precipitating.
Since it's also New Year's Eve now, happy 2006! Aside from the wedding, another of my firsts this year was my first speeding ticket (about which I hoped, and still hope, to write a more lengthy entry). What happened to you this year, or what did you do this year, for the first time?
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* Actually, that's not true. Even if this summer goes as planned, I will still have two 10-year goals left to accomplish, and I'm pretty confident that the two drives behind them -- writing and spirituality -- will be significant aspects of whatever new direction I choose.
Current Mood: Nearly married
Current Music: Rain pattering on the window
Tags: wedding
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04:27 am
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As brief as possible of an update on my life
With my limited net access lately -- and focus on little teensy weensy things like the move and, well, all of the below -- I really haven't been able to type out proper updates on everything that's been going on with my life.
The short answer is: Everything. This is the year it all happens.
First and most importantly. As I explained the last time I summed up, kadyg and I are now engaged. It was a long post and it was a while ago, though, so it's worth saying again. This factors into my future plans, but I'm getting ahead of myself slightly. (I'm also debt-free, which factors into my future plans, but now I'm really getting ahead of myself.)
With that commitment having been penned in to the life calendar, the two of us promptly decided to go out and find a place to move into together. (This wasn't because we weren't already living together; it was because the place we were in was getting too expensive for comfort.) Voila: A month or two of my life sucked down the moving hole.
I've just about had time to catch my breath from that. So, now, naturally, it's time to fling myself off into some mad, whirlwind undertaking that will suck up my life entirely for a while.
( The next five months of my life: Travel, NaNo, marriage, training )
Current Mood:  needing sleep
Current Music: Chicago soundtrack, "We Both Reached For The Gun"
Tags: greece, misc life updates, wedding
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12:32 am
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Re-asking the question
Since this post is friends-locked, I'll extend the advice solicitation out a little further:
"About the registry: I'm having a heck of a time coming up with things for other people to buy us. ... Married people, what do you wish you had gotten when you got hitched?"
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02:08 pm
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Coming together
Have you ever had one of those time periods where everything goes wrong? Sure you have. Everyone has.
But have you ever had one of those periods where everything goes right?
I sure have. And it's been a long time in coming.
( House sale: Weight off my shoulders )
On top of that, today kadyg and I had our rings delivered. "Rings?" I hear you ask. It's a fair question with a happy answer: We're officially engaged!
My parents' first question when I told them the news was "How did you propose to her?" -- which is probably a more common question than I'm giving it credit for, so I should give more detail here.1 It's sort of a boring story, though. The bottom line is that we've been living together for about a year and a half now, taking things as they've come and gradually giving more thought to our future. We've gotten gradually more comfortable over that time with the idea of spending the rest of our lives together and with the idea of a mutual commitment. (She was shy of the idea at first due to a previous marriage and divorce; I was shy of it for reasons I'll detail in a later post.) So, um, we pretty much just talked about it and decided that the idea was right. No big, life-changing romantic gestures yet, although I'm sure we can come up with one.
( Also, debt-free )
All things considered, I feel better right now than I have in a long, long time. I've closed two chapters in my life that I'm glad to have behind me, and I've opened up a third that I'm excited to get started with. I love you, Kady. ]B=8)
Perseverance, patience, tenderness, and compassion have paid off in a big way, and there's more than enough of them to go around as I continue to chase my other long-term plans and help my fiancée with hers.
( Footnotes )
Current Mood: w00t!
Current Music: Babble, "Spirit"
Tags: misc life updates, wedding
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04:15 am
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Spam from the 18th Century
The subject line of a piece of spam I received in my inbox earlier today:
hi! .. (and your souls? O that I may be instrumental in joining your )
I normally ignore these, because anything with a subject line that strange and fragmentary is almost certainly computer-generated, i.e. a piece of spam not worth reading. But the word "souls" caught my eye, and I Googled a portion of the phrase.
It's from a speech called "Christ: the Best Husband," by George Whitefield, a mid-1700s preacher. Fuller context: "What do you say? Shall the match be made up this evening between Christ and your souls? O that I may be instrumental in joining your hands, or rather your hearts together." (Two lines later, he cites the proverb "marry in haste, repent at leisure," which dates it back at least 250 years.)
Which brings me tangentially to an odd request. Can I ask a favor from my Christian readers -- and other people of any faith in the audience, but Christians especially? Give this post a skim and see if you can post any words of spiritual support or advice for the author here. I'm jumping in way late on this one, but something still ought to be said. Do note that she's a person close to my heart and this will be a snark-free zone. (Try to keep religion and politics separate, as well.)
Current Mood:  awake
Current Music: Fossil, "Untethered"
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04:15 pm
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Now introducing ...
There are relationships where two people, as if drawn together by fate, are
both instantly smitten with each other and sense some sort of Undying Twue
Wuv at work. There are relationships where one of the partners is so taken
that they move heaven and earth to align the two of them and make things
ultimately work out. And then there are the relationships that sort of
creep up while nobody's looking and lurk in the background with a sly,
subtle smile, and by the time you both notice it's too late to change your
mind -- as if either of you wanted to in the first place.
My relationship with kadyg has definitely been one of the
latter.
When we first started talking, back in December, I already had on my plate
not only my commitment to dreamflow but also a long-distance
courtship with halyn. I had extremely low expectations for Placer
County's ability to produce potential partners with the ... well,
fluorescence I would be looking for. And I hadn't made any close friends in
the area that I wasn't already living with; I've always believed that
relationships should only come from and build on close friendships. For her
part, Kady had recently completed a cross-country move and a significant job
change. Relationships were not exactly forefront in her mind.
But, well, when someone presses all your right turn-on buttons, it's hard
to resist the lure. It was definitely a mutual geek crush. We got to
talking -- then flirting -- when she signed on as webmistress for the
newspaper I work at. One thing led to another, and she invited me back to
her place for a drink round about December.
I immediately came clean about my availability status -- poly, but taken,
and in the new stages of a relationship I didn't want to jinx by dividing my
attention. But Kady remained interested, and the more we talked at work,
the more things clicked into place for me. After some discussion with Rene
-- and a month of impatience all around while I waited to see how our first
face-to-face meeting would go -- the time became right for Kady and I to
move things forward in late January.
What surprised both of us was the ease with which we meshed together. Like
most American males, I have a difficult time opening up and being intimate
(especially emotionally) with people I don't know and trust deeply. On top
of that, I had some sexual nervousness to overcome, given a few elements of my
relationship history. But Kady never made me feel like I had to
second-guess myself, and handled even the odder aspects of my life with
grace and empathy -- something which I could hardly take for granted, given
that she was the first relationship I'd had since high school
that I initially met outside the dragon community. (She also says
she grew comfortable with me far quicker than she expected -- especially
considering some less-than-ideal former experiences with magic and my
openness about my spiritual activity -- but I'll leave that for her to
elaborate on if she wishes.)
From those humble beginnings ... it's now been six months. We've watched
movies, played Scrabble, visited cat shelters, swam beneath waterfalls,
cooked homemade peanut sauce, and held deep conversations about the nature
of the Tomorrowlands. I
dropped by her place a few times, then stayed overnight once or twice, then
once a week, and now I keep a change of clothes there.
She attended BayCon with me (and spent some significant time gossiping
about me with elynne -- and when your current talks with your ex
and they both corner you and tell you they like you more afterward,
you know you're doing something right :)). I've dragged her onto
Livejournal and now get the fascinating and flattering opportunity to read
about her life (and the ways in which I'm making a difference in it). We
curse our paper's Web provider together, both play KoL, and discovered by happy
coincidence a mutual love of backpacking -- which is always a huge
<3 in my book, and yet more evidence that sometimes
pure chance just does land two interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces adjacent to
each other.
More importantly, she's comforted me over a certain nameless person's
assholitude toward the loss of my son after being woken up at 8 AM on a
weekend. Despite the fears she's expressed that there are parts of my life
which we have a difficult time sharing ... anyone who I trust to do that --
anyone who I'd be willing to make that request of in the first place! -- is
someone who I want to stay in my life, someone who means a great deal to me.
So everyone say hi to kadyg! We've made quite a difference in
each others' lives so far, and I can only hope there's much more to come.
Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Malixx, "Echoes of Lyra" (Fairlight Vocal Remix)
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04:02 am
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Maybe this can start a meme ...
Gay marriage has been running through my head a great deal in the last several weeks. (Hard for it not to, when you both work at a newspaper and have many friends of alternate sexuality.)
One of the main secular arguments that conservatives advance to oppose gay marriage is that it will "destroy marriage." The snappy answer to this -- "Anyone out there getting a divorce if gays are allowed into the club? Anyone? Show of hands?" -- is, I think, largely correct, but in some ways it is also attacking a straw man.
The problem is that the traditional conservative line of attack is not that it will destroy existing marriages, but that it will by some magical mechanism cause unmarried people to think less of it. I find this line of reasoning equally unpersuasive -- "Uh, Mabel, you know, we're standing in line behind ... you know ... a gay couple. Maybe we should forget the tax breaks, legal rights, and societal approval and just go home" -- but the fact remains that that's the party line.
I've been giving this some thought, and an idea just crystallized.
As a person of conscience, I would like to think of myself as someone willing to take a stand for social justice, even if it's personally inconveniencing. I want to be able to send a message, such as by going to San Francisco and lining up for the altar. But I'm not gay. I am, as I explained to the reporters in SFO when I visited to pass out chocolates to newlyweds, "mildly bi" at best, and my last several relationships have been with members of the opposite gender.
And it hit me: What this means is that I am a prime candidate for the traditional definition of marriage. I do have a protest voice. What could send more of a message than having the ability to get married -- and refusing?
If the conservatives want to talk up the Federal Marriage Amendment by warning that the alternative is "destroying marriage" for unwed heterosexuals, how powerful of a rebuttal would it be for opponents to hold up a list of hundreds of thousands of names, and say, "For these unwed heterosexuals, YOU are destroying marriage"?
Fortunately, it looks as though the FMA is dead on arrival -- there are at least 36 confirmed "no" votes in the Senate, and it requires two-thirds majorities from both branches of Congress. But I would be very surprised if this is the last word in the battle, especially if (God forbid) Bush claws out another four-year reign.
Such a protest may be needed yet. And I'm wondering if there are enough unwed* straights willing to speak up out there to give this critical mass.
As for me, I have a certain special someone to discuss this with before I can give an unambiguous yes, but I would be proud to call myself among that crowd.
(* Not to exclude couples, but divorce as a protest measure has far more drastic consequences, and I'm not certain I'd recommend it unless an amendment looks unavoidable.)
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: "A Chapel," Final Fantasy Tactics OST
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05:58 am
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It's being written, no, really ...
I'm hopefully about halfway through my write-up of Sunday's big San Francisco City Hall visit. So much for immediate, fresh and topical; but if I'm going to limp through the final gate with a late entry, I'm at least going to write a lengthy, memorable travelogue, dammit.
kadyg, who's a little better at multitasking than I am (and who didn't have work this week, for that matter), finished her write-up of the day in a timely fashion. It doesn't have any of the pictures we took, but it's worthy reading.
In other news, I was pointed at 140204 on Tuesday. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to not one, but two people -- neither of which appear to be one of my current partners -- who left me anonymous (and touching) Valentine's Day messages.
Thank you, K. (because I suspect you're one of the two). Thank you also, anonymous person. I had a very nicely distracting V-day, but this week I've been feeling acutely isolated, and the messages came just in time to give me a meaningful boost.
Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: Dave Matthews Band, "Warehouse"
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11:05 am
[Link] | Just getting a few seconds at a computer for the first time since Saturday night's post. Will be out most of the rest of the day. San Francisco update to come as soon as possible, which is to say, probably tonight (unless the storm blowing through the foothills takes out our home net access).
Day went well. Much candy was distributed. Can still feel the love.
Current Mood: happy
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12:42 am
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Road trip
Many, many people on my friends list are posting about gay marriage in the last day or two, now that San Francisco officials are engaging in an act of civil disobedience and marrying gay couples by the hundreds.
But it was elynne's wish that she could be there passing out heart candy to the newlyweds, and her subsequent link to Authenti-city's very touching photo album, that spurred me into action.
Coworker kadyg and I are taking a road trip into the city Sunday (about a three-hour drive). In hand: Press pass, digital camera, perhaps a sign of support ... and several armloads of heart-shaped candy.
Update to come, probably on my site.
(Additional note: I was going to make a post almost exactly like this one, but I've been beaten to it by approximately several thousand people. Those sentiments incorporated herein by reference.)
Current Mood: quixotic
Tags: wedding
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