I'M EQUAL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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75. This is WUNNNNderful!!!!

I really liked Rachel Maddow's metaphor on this, which she stated a few minutes ago on Chris Jansing's show - equality was like cell service as you traveled around the country, the signal would go in and out depending on where you were.

In this day and age, that's just total bullshit. TOTAL bullshit. Marriage is marriage. PERIOD. Equality is equality. PERIOD. It isn't a little bit here and a little bit there. It isn't based on some individual community's whims or rigid localized crap. It isn't "well this part is equal but your part is not..."

I'm a heterosexual. Neither my husband nor I have EVER felt that our marriage was in any way threatened, compromised, or damaged by the marriage of two gays. We've been married for 37 years. I guess some straights out there have marriages that are so tenuous and brittle and unstable that they'd just crumble over this. Well, I feel sorry for them. Maybe THAT constitutes a bad or illegitimate marriage then? Ours is as strong as ever. And yours is too, William769! Congratulations!!!!

I just think it's kind of a shame that we've had to fight this through so much obstruction and prejudice and intolerance and small-mindedness, for so long, and all the way to the freakin' Supreme Court to get to this point. Still troublesome that assholes like scalia, alito, and thomas were in a position to weigh in on this. Thank GOD they were in the minority! (Sure wish it had gone that same way yesterday.)

America takes another step forward. BUT BE ON YOUR GUARD. I say this as a woman who thought her rights were protected after Roe v Wade - and we are STILL defending that one. I hope it doesn't go the same way for the LGBT community. But there are people in this country who won't take this quietly, and I expect some of them to try to start a movement to get this reversed someday. Be on your guard. Protect the ground you've gained with everything you've got. Look what's happening to voting rights, and the right to choose. This sweet victory can VERY easily be taken away again.