Marriage Equality! For Now and Always

It’s been awhile since I’ve written about marriage equality here. And when I did, it was with a sizable impatience for the glacial pace of the process – the process by which many of us come to bestow upon others the very same rights we leverage for ourselves. 

And cynic that I am, for awhile I almost began to believe that it would never come to pass. Understandable, I guess, since our opponents’ venom was fierce. But so was our will to strive on – on behalf of basic human decency. On behalf of the bedrock moral certainty that our LGBTQ sisters and brothers deserved no less legitimacy in the fabric of their intimate lives than we demand for ourselves.

And so at long last here we stand, with same-sex marriage legal across the nation. Torturous in its prologue, the reality’s been a long time coming. And it’s no exaggeration to say that the credit for this enormous achievement goes to millions of honest brokers - millions of strong-hearted lovers of fairness and equality - our countless sisters and brothers whose bodies, energies and voices coalesced in the tireless quest for everyone’s right to marry whomever we love.