So all over the internet I’ve been seeing ads saying “Conventional Marriage Under Attack!” and “Stop the threats to REAL marriage!” Now I didn’t realize gay marriage was such a threat to conventional marriage or exactly how it threatens it. Have homosexuals acquired a gay atomic bomb? Will it be dropped from Neil Patrick Harris’s penis-shaped blimp and cast a debris of heavy glitter and fragments of Liza Minnelli’s CDs until all traditional marriages in the greater Alabama are wiped out?
I don’t know what the threat of homosexual marriage is to straight marriage, only that if you believe that, today was the most threatening day yet. New York officially allowed gay marriages to be performed today–it’s by far the largest state to allow them–and all over the state couples joined together to make an honest same sex partner out of each other. Today broke a record for the most gay marriages allowed in a single day.
The courthouses were stuffed. You had partners that had been together for decades overjoyed to finally be able to express a basic freedom straight couples not only take for granted but mine for comedy cold (half of all sitcoms wouldn’t exist if not for the daily frustrations marriage provides). I have to admit I never had a full emotional investment in this issue until I got to see two lesbians older than my grandmother be pronounced married and shed tears because they never thought this day would come in their lifetimes, having already been “married” for four decades but not having the government recognize it. Whether you’re as straight as me or as gay as Michelle Bachmann’s husband, I think we can all wish for that kind of love in our lifetimes. I’m glad to see so many deserving people be able to make it legal.