This is huge! The nation’s capital has pushed legislation through allowing any consenting couple to become legally married! Washington is now the 6th place in the nation where any couple is allowed to be married, following Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Iowa.
Couples in DC have been waiting for hours in line today to apply for marriage licenses on this historic day. When the first couple signed in at the city’s marriage bureau at the Moultrie courthouse, cheering and applauding thunderously broke out from the excited and relieved crowd.
As of now, 100-plus couples are at the bureau, and over 50 have filed for their license. Since there is a mandatory waiting period of three (business) days, these couples will be married on Tuesday. A city councilman was handing out cupcakes who had sponsored the law. How festive! One couple told http://www.msnbc.com that they felt as if it was Christmas morning. A dream come true, in fact!
The fact that now same-sex marriage is being recognized in the nation’s capital speaks volumes. It is sort of the first domino that is going to knock down the others, in a way. Now that the capital has declared this as “un-scary” to nervous heteros (why they are nervous and so upset at homosexuals being able to marry escapes me, other than their personal religious beliefs...it’s a good thing we have a separation of church and state in this country...) I am hoping that other states will follow suit at a rapid pace, and once a majority of states decide to legalize it, who knows? Maybe a national bill will be put forward! (Hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?)
I am so happy twoday for all of my gay and lesbian friends who are able to get married to their lover, to their partner, to their friend. We all deserve the opportunity to stand before the state and declare our love and adoration for one another and make it legal. This makes it real. Defining moment for Washington DC. A defining moment for the people of this country. Whether you love it or hate it, these people live here, too, and they deserve the same rights and privileges that we all do! Now, where’s my cupcake?
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The people opposed to gays think that homosexuality is “contagious”. They are idiots. The next thing they’ll want is a sticker on the foreheads of gay people so they don’t marry one by accident.
Of course, they don’t seem to worry about all of Rush Limbaugh’s divorces hurting “traditional” marriage. Some of these backwards people would probably like to take away interracial marriage as well.