Well...after 7 years ...for Legal Reasons...

[Autumnlicious]

If there's no biting off chickens heads I'd be disappointed Plus a naked kidnapped vicar forced to recite some satanist ritual stuff.

Did I say that out loud?

Did you just tell everyone what your ideal wedding ceremony is?

[fr0d0]

Dang it!

[KichigaiNeko]

We are Rayaan, but this just legalises it all.

Did you enjoy your trip to "Contracts and Chattels"?

That's what we officially call the dept that handles marriage licenses.

Lovely name.

meh sad but true... At least we get a party out of it!

[Autumnlicious]

Well, yesterday, my mom and dad were talking about how so many things have changed in their lifetimes, with my mom beginning with a recall to the day they allowed girls to wear pants.

It struck me that only within the last 70 years have women been transitioned from semi-intelligent beasts (legally) to encompass more rights and responsibilities, approaching (but not yet synced or matched in many opportunities) that of men.

It's not a "sad" name. It's a monstrous reflection of the deprecation and artificial repression of a whole class of thinking beings to serve and stay under another class, to the point that "equal pay for equal work" is not standard operating procedure (SOP) but a somewhat "radical" (to a great many cultures, countries even now, like half of America) to conceive of.

Unfortunately, uplifting one whole class of thinking beings separated by gender is harder than one might think -- much of our shared and unique cultures grow a dependence on old information, on old roles and older traditions; it is that cultural dependence on 'continuity' that will routinely destabilize, oscillate and even destroy a movement to change that.

Abolition of slavery took well over a hundred years, across tens of thousands of people, to ban in our Euro-American "world", with many attempts and partial successes amounting to an ultimate conclusion, not that many of those people except that last generation to succeed in their respective country lived to see "change."

I fear no one will truly be equal in standing as a person, for there will always be someone wanting to beat another down. Perhaps that is why freedom requires an eternal vigil...

[frankiej]

Shit, son! I don't know how I missed this thread.

Congrats, guys!

[Zen Badger]

Well, we've just organised for the Rev. Rod Williams (AKA Pilot) to perform the ceremony.

Ok,ok, he rides a Harley but we can make allowances for that

[5thHorseman]

You're just jealous, Zen

[KichigaiNeko]

So ..... down to dates. We currently have the option of 1st December or the 8th December. My preference is for the 1st December...for a whole plethora of reasons!