Happy love day! (RL)

[thistlechaser]

Today's the first full day for same-sex marriages in California! Yay! (Officially it started at 5 PM yesterday evening, but most government offices close at 5.) While getting married is so totally not for me, I'm glad it's now available to more people who do want it! :D

I wish florists around the state were doing what they did back when San Francisco did this last time: You paid for flowers and they went and delivered them to some random couple waiting to be married. That's one of the things in my life I'm happiest to have done, even though I have no idea who got my flowers. I'm so pleased that I was able to make two people happy! To let them know that some random stranger out there supported them. :D

I was listening to a story on the radio this morning: The parents of one same-sex couple getting married today were one of the first couples married back when CA first lifted the ban on interracial marriages. I wonder if within my lifetime anti-same sex marriage will be looked at in the same way as anti-interracial marriages? I guess one can only hope!

Don't hate, love!

Yay California! And yay love! Yay everyone!

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[gmth.livejournal.com]

You paid for flowers and they went and delivered them to some random couple waiting to be married.

Oh, what a neat idea. If you do hear of someone doing that, would you let me know? I'd love to do that. :-)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Isn't it the coolest idea? I haven't been able to turn up anything yet, but if I do I'll let you know!

[razyk.livejournal.com]

The parents of one same-sex couple getting married today were one of the first couples married back when CA first lifted the ban on interracial marriages.

Kind of wacky to read that and realize that it really wasn't all that long ago that the interracial marriage ban was lifted. It was only the 1940s or so that the ban was lifted in CA I believe, which isn't as long ago as we would like to believe at times. (I remember that SC didn't remove their ban on interracial marriage until 1998, go-go-deep-south!)

You end up having to sit back and realize that it isn't just a lot of happy couples today but also history in the making. Very neat.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

(I remember that SC didn't remove their ban on interracial marriage until 1998, go-go-deep-south!)

Okay, wow, that's just scary.

You end up having to sit back and realize that it isn't just a lot of happy couples today but also history in the making. Very neat.

Very much so. :) That's a small part of the reason why I was so happy to have been able to send flowers to the first San Francisco couples getting married way back when -- I felt like I was taking some little part in it. Very very cool.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

South Carolinian here, actually. My little sister will be entering into a interracial marriage this fall. It caused a massive uproar in our family (100% Scot, 3 generations stateside), but personally I don't think she'll find a nicer guy of any race.

As for same-sex marriage...I'm sorry, but I don't see how if homosexuals can marry, it devalues straight marriage in any way. I'm as heterosexual as they come. I like women, a lot. Ya'll are awesome. Anytime a gay guy flirts with me, which is pretty often (apparently being mid-20s, well dressed with a cyberpunk twist, and intellectual draws gay guys like flies to honey...and repels southern girls), I happily flirt back. Doesn't seem to affect my chances with women, infect me with the gay, or erode my morals. I live in Tennessee now, and after explaining that I am straight with no possibility of conversion, most gay guys are just amazed at meeting a straight guy from the deep south who doesn't hate them outright. Sad days, we live in. Worse still, the lift on the ban of gay marriage in California will probably be annulled come November w/ a constitutional amendment.

I love how people try to point to homosexuality as the erosion of morality in America. They should be more careful though, pointing fingers has a dangerous tendency to get more fingers pointed back (future gay McCarthyism?)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I don't see how if homosexuals can marry, it devalues straight marriage in any way.

Same. Your marriage has the value you place on it, not what anyone else does.

Anytime a gay guy flirts with me, which is pretty often (apparently being mid-20s, well dressed with a cyberpunk twist, and intellectual draws gay guys like flies to honey...and repels southern girls), I happily flirt back.

That's so cute. :D

Worse still, the lift on the ban of gay marriage in California will probably be annulled come November w/ a constitutional amendment.

Yes, but the supreme court of CA has already said they'll overturn it if it's annulled, so yay!

I love how people try to point to homosexuality as the erosion of morality in America.

Exactly. You worried about the quality of marriages? How about starting with the more than 50% that end in divorce?

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

The Supreme Court can rule a constitutional amendment unconstitutional? Hmm...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

There was a story a while back on NPR about this, and that was the basic idea behind it. 'If the people try to overturn it, we'll overrule it'.

It makes sense, really. What if the majority voted to kick all gay people out of the country or said they couldn't hold jobs or something? There would need to be a way to overrule that.

[daltontrix.livejournal.com]

SO I should give up on my dreams of sweeping you off your feet now then? ;)

I kid, I kid, but I think it's pretty cool that at least one more place is allowing same sex marriages to be legal. Perhaps with time more will follow suit.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* For you I might make an exception! <3

And yes, very cool. :D