Two states were in the news this week with marriage equality.
As I wrote in a post last week, a federal judge in Michigan was going to consider Michigan's ban on gay marriage. As is common in many cases around equality, he punted, saying he would hear arguments in February. Seriously. February.
Yet on Friday of this week the New Jersey State Supreme Court did not punt and let a lower court judge's ruling that marriages could begin while the issue of marriage equality was in the courts. Marriages can begin this Monday!
Here at home in Colorado marriage for Mike and I is still not a reality, and most likely won't be for some time. Many people say to us, "I just don't get why it is not legal". We definitely feel the same way. Yet when we look around and still see those who support equality not expressing themselves at the voting booth while the religious extremists and bigots do, then it makes sense.
We have to be a voice for equality. We cannot let the religious extremists in this country have say over which Americans should have rights and which shouldn't. It's bad enough that they have so much power in Congress. We need to take their power away.
Whew, from Michigan to New Jersey to Congress all in a few paragraphs.
We are sending loads of love to our brothers and sisters in Jersey who very soon will have legal marriage!
Thanks for reading!
Best of luck with pushing for equal marriage in your state! Here in the UK we look set to get same-sex marriages allowed in 2014 (we already have civil partnerships, which is the 'separate-but-equal' option introduced in 2005 which is anything but equal!).
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