A huge day/week for marriage.

First Iowa, now Vermont! A huge milestone in our nation as that state's legislature overrides a veto and legalizes same-sex marriage. This is a tremendous victory and proponents of both the LGBT community and the constitutionality of marriage equality should be thrilled.

In other news, Washington, DC voted unanimously to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. You can read about it in the washington post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040702200.html?hpid=topnews.

Marriage is the most personal decision that fundamentally makes your life not of one person but two. The commitments, cares, worries, the sexlife, the ups, downs, desires, etcetera are all as important in gay relationships as they are in straight ones. The bigotry on this issue is really about ignorance, something that will dissipate with the "chicken and the egg" social change factor that will happen across the nation as states legalize gay marriage. This is evident in Massachusetts where a majority of citizens opposed same sex marriage until it was legal and they realized that it did not threaten them at all, nor did it threaten their "traditional" family, or their church. Today those polled overwhelmingly support the marriage law as it stands: including everyone. This will be true across the nation. With an extremely positive feeling, savoring today, knowing this fight is far from over, I look to the future and hope for the best.