I never blog from work (which is about 90% of the reason I haven't updated in over 2 months), but I'm making an exception (mind you, I'm on my lunch break) to say that sometimes I'm just overjoyed to live in Massachusetts. It may be overly expensive, it might be a bit on the snotty side, it might be a laughable size to many, we may use funny, hard to pronounce town names like Worcester and Leicester and Leominster, but darn it, we have a kick-ass Supreme Judician Court, enough people willing to take a stand to sue for the right to be married even though it thrust their personal lives into a public spotlight, and a long, drawn-out constitutional amendment process. I know the decision to allow same sex couples to marry in Massachusetts is not all that popular, but that doesn't mean it's not right. I'm sure a great many people were downright pissed off at the changes made when slavery was abolished, but aren't we better off for the governing officials to have made unpopular choices. I am, to an extent, heartened that so many who are so adament about not allowing gay marriage are willing to consider civil unions. While that does address to an extent the idea of equal rights (and perhaps would give some benefits to heterosexual couples who'd not chosen to marry for whatever reason), it still rubs me the wrong way. Haven't we already found separate but equal type laws unfair? I'm lost as to why this is seen as a threat to "traditional families" by so many, though. Do lawmakers really think nice happy straight people are going to jump out of their own marriages because they can suddenly marry someone of their own gender? Perhaps Mitt Romney has some hidden tendancies this is stirring... Is simply acknowledging the coupleship of two people really a threat to two other people who paired up differently? Anyhow, I hope I live long enough to have to explain to my grandkids (whether their from a daughter and son in law or daughter and daughter in law, or hell, single daughter... um... after she's about 50 ;)) that there was a time people thought the very idea same sex marriage was evil, because the concept will be as foreign to them as the idea that an interracial or interreligious marriage would be unallowable is to me. And maybe I should blog away my lunch more often. ;)