Congratulations to the great State of New York. Thanks to all those who worked so hard for this victory. Now the total number of states that have legalized a god-given right is six.
Six of forty-four.
Meanwhile...
Here in NC HUNDREDS rallied for the same rights in a state that will ignore them.
They ignore our voices here.
They ignore my son and his partner here. With their rank, stinking fucking BIGOTRY.
Meanwhile the fires of that bigotry rage in forty-four other states that are now allowed to express their bigotry by ignoring the rights of the millions of gay couples that reside within their borders.
Meanwhile my straight son is married.
Meanwhile I mourn the wife I was fortunate enough to have married.
Look, if we're going to be equal, it can't be a State's rights issue. It has to be an American issue.
This is the problem with thinking of ourselves as a loose collection of local towns within local cities within states within the confines of an "oppressive" federal entity.
My son, like all the sons and daughters of New York that were granted their equal rights in NY, is an American.
This begs the question. If the gay couples in NY or Massachusetts or Iowa or Connecticut or Vermont or New Hampshire are all Americans, and if my son--in NC--is also an American...then why can he not be married within the state of his birth, as the Americans in these other states can?
If we are all Americans, then we are all NEW YORKERS on this night.
You hear me, bigots?
State's rights is bullshit.
And we're gonna huff.
And puff.
And we're gonna BLOW your fuckin house in!
Much love to New Yorkers tonight on this historic occasion.