DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[LemmingofGlory]

Gay, see my forum title, but in order to get married it helps to have someone who wants to be married to you. The marriage laws here are the least of my marriage problems at the moment.

Edit: forgive me for being so churlish and selfcentered -- Congratulations!

It's cool. It's nice seeing LGBT presence on the forum. I remember back in the day things were vaguely LGBT-tolerant and much less LGBT-positive. I mean, there were people like Doc that would sit around rambling like the insane uncle at the family reunion about being a guerilla civil rights activist living "off the grid" and in next breath opine on the terrible consequences gay sex as if he was trying to get people to quit gay cold turkey. I remember gay rights threads ending complacently with "Well, we're just not ready for that yet" instead of "Even if we don't expect change tomorrow, it's never too early to make people aware." And then there were the blatantly discriminatory arguments that I didn't even want to deal with. It's nice to see times change though. Nowdays the most common criticism you see in threads about gay marriage is about the evils of capitalism.

-Lem