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I had a long post here about Dinah and I’s day at City Hall, volunteering to help out gay couples getting married. TypePad ate it. Read Dinah’s description. She breaks it down.
Suffice it to say I was a witness to 6 marriages, poured water to 400 people in line, wishes at least that many well and spent the afternoon in a boundless see of love and devotion. One of the deputized commisioners said to me after he performed and I witnessed a particularly moving ceremony, “If the protestors outside could see just one ceremony, they would know that this is not about sex and all about love.” Absolutely. I got home and immediately called my parents to tell them how I had spent the afternoon. Overjoyed,
Seems that this is going to be a hugely divisive issue in the upcoming presidential election. Politically, it’s ingenious for the Republicans to be trotting this one out. Morally, it’s out of the gutter. Never mind the economy which is growing and shedding jobs at the same time, never mind the fiasco of Iraq with 500 American dead and no sign of a resolution, we need to worry our heads over whether gay folks can get married or simply live together like married people. Well, no one ever went broke overestimating the puritanism of the average American.
Jane breaks it down pretty well also. And Derek took some killer photos and and has a great essay about the whole experience.
Here in Chi-town, Mayor Daley has expressed approval for gay marriage. He has no objection to Cook County officiating over marriages, a la San Fran City Hall. As the Red Eye, Chicago Tribune’s young and hip (and low IQ) paper puts it “GAY OK”.
Tom Tunney, Chicago’s first openly gay alderman, agrees and states the obvious:
“Fifty percent of marriages fail, I look at my own family, and I know my parents are divorced. I have brothers and sisters who are divorced. The fact that … a gay person wants a relationship I think is no threat to the institution.”
Not that we’ll see long lines outside City Hall or the County Building anytime soon. It took way too long for people to accept civil unions, the midwest won’t condone gay marriage tommorrow. Even if most of Chicago is Gay OK.
Here in Chi-town, Mayor Daley has expressed approval for gay marriage. He has no objection to Cook County officiating over marriages, a la San Fran City Hall. As the Red Eye, Chicago Tribune’s young and hip (and low IQ) paper puts it “GAY OK”.
Tom Tunney, Chicago’s first openly gay alderman, agrees and states the obvious:
“Fifty percent of marriages fail, I look at my own family, and I know my parents are divorced. I have brothers and sisters who are divorced. The fact that … a gay person wants a relationship I think is no threat to the institution.”
Not that we’ll see long lines outside City Hall or the County Building anytime soon. It took way too long for people to accept civil unions, the midwest won’t condone gay marriage tommorrow. Even if most of Chicago is Gay OK.