(June 28, 2015 at 1:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 1:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: I think this decision has been a big part of my positive mood the last few days
Mine too. I get lost in the wonderful videos of old couples getting married in places like Texas and Tennessee. Couples who thought they would never see this day. It's so beautiful, and makes me cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQlfsLEJs0
My second video weakness. I will cry almost immediately for:
1) Videos of servicemembers coming home and surprising their families
2) Videos of cute older gay couples finally getting married.
My son's mother is bisexual and in a long-term relationship with a wonderful woman. My happiness that they can now avail themselves of the same right that all our parents had gets me to leaking a little, because they can not only get equal civil rights, but have their deep and abiding love recognized by all, in the form of a record that will be archived, in the form of being able to attend each other in medical emergencies, in the form of being able to attend each others' duties in death or grave illness, all the way down to the miniscule being able to say "this is my wife" and not get that funny vibe (which ain't here yet, but will happen because of this decision) -- I well up a little when I think of the long slog that her, Chris, and hundreds of thousands of other couples have had to endure in the face of bigotry and the worst that humanity has to offer -- and goddamn, that commands my respect.
