Tulsi Gabbard & family informing everyone they can't marry each other...or a dog

[moriah]

63. I did.

Or rather, I didn't understand why my dad's friends, who I called "Uncle Billy and Uncle Glenn", weren't able to get married. They'd stayed together when my own parents split.

They're still together, and married now.

I'm older than Tulsi, by a little over a year, and raised by my very conservative grandparents after the divorce. She was still arguing against gay marriage at the same age I was when I was protesting the Iraq war invasion (was living in New York the winter of 2002-2003, was late for the A7 protest so didn't get arrested but did spent the rest of the day outside 1PP handing out stuff from the NLG to people as they got released).

Obviously it's not impossible to form opinions of your own and have critical thinking just because you were raised in a conservative environment. I was luckier perhaps than most to be exposed to gay people from as far as I could remember, but that doesn't mean I didn't hear my grandparent's opinions. I just saw with my own mind they were wrong.