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The place we’re hoping to move to only has this type of fire escape/balcony. Would love to transition it as nicely as this.
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Bringing the outside in.
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second floor living without a yard.
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soon. I promise.
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I need to get to Europe soon.
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Sufjan Stevens
—To Be Alone With You
To be alone with you.
Sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep…
This. I think about this all the time, I’m glad to have it put out so plainly into words.
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Please excuse me as I become a giant squid of anger…
Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council- a conservative Christian organization- was quoted as saying the following about Amendment 1 passing in North Caronlina, banning gay marriage:
“We applaud North Carolina voters for joining voters in 31 other states upholding the historic and natural definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. At every opportunity, the American people have demonstrated a deep appreciation for the unique benefits that marriage between a man and a woman brings to families and society. They recognize that marriage is the only kind of union that results in natural procreation and keeps a mother and father together to raise the children produced by their union.”
Okay, Okay, Okay… let me express my unbridled rage about this one small (albeit vehemently evil) chunk at a time.
“We applaud North Carolina voters for joining voters in 31 other states upholding the historic and natural definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman”.
Alright, I can concede that the definition of marriage as a man and a woman is fairly historic, in that it’s the definition that the united states has upheld until recently. So you got me there, Tony. But if I hear the term “natural” in discussion about homosexuality anymore I will lose it!
Homosexuality is natural. Beyond that, definitions cannot be natural! They are things we created. They are constructed. We decide what they are.
“At every opportunity, the American people have demonstrated a deep appreciation for the unique benefits that marriage between a man and a woman brings”
Except for all the opportunities in which they didn’t. Such as all of the states that have already legalized gay marriage, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell being revoked, and many, MANY other instances of of individuals, families, schools and communities speaking out against legislated homophobia.
Also, what are those alleged benefits heterosexual couples bring (that homosexuals could not), and to whom are they brought?
“They recognize that marriage is the only kind of union that results in natural procreation and keeps a mother and father together to raise the children produced by their union.”
Now here, he’s completely lost me. I’m not sure exactly how it is that banning gay marriage keeps hetero sexual parents together. Not to mention that many heterosexual couples choose ‘unnatural” methods to have families such as adopting, IVF, etc.(Please know those are HUGE quotation marks, I use that word “natural, or “unnatural” only to mirror what Perkins has said. Natural is an extremely loaded word and I think really has no place in discussions about sexuality, or gender). Are these also unacceptable choices?
There’s a lot more to this amendment other than gay couples not being allowed to get married. There are monetary and custodial implications that I won’t get into because I can already feel the steam whistling from my ears.
I sincerely hope all people (both gay and straight) with a sense of equality, and compassion know that we are right, and soon we will be heard. Everyone has to keep speaking up and speaking out.
