First, a cheer for equal rights ruling. Next a parallel w choice.
This ruling is historic and long-overdue. I celebrate loud and proud with my gay brothers and sisters and all the families and friends who have worked for a equality for them. Finally!!
From the outside looking in, it feels to me
(without benefit of evidence I know) that part of the reason the population has come around on this so definitely is because we understand that a gay person hiding in the straight marriage to survive doesn’t make them less gay. It just makes for unhappiness.
Let people be themselves!
Here’s where I see a parallel. Preventing women from access to abortion when they don’t want to have a baby doesn’t mean that women don’t have abortions. It means they have illegal abortions without benefit of good medical care. We already know this because we know what happened to women when abortions were illegal. We definitely did not stop having abortions. Instead, we frequently died of them.
We need to take a good long while and let these equal rights, now decided at the highest court, become law. There’s a bill on Mitch McConnell‘s desk right now that has passed the house that would do exactly that.
Once that is done, I hope we join hands and turn to the next task, to protect the right to choice.
