Gay couples can’t get a marriage license in San Francisco anymore (for now), but now you can in a second county in Oregon.
And Dan Savage has gotten hitched in Seattle. But it’s not what you think.
Like I said, Amy and Sonia and I didn’t show up at the county building last Friday because we were planning to sue. We came to make a point about the absurdity of our marriage laws. Amy can’t marry Sonia, I can’t marry Terry–why? Because the sanctity of marriage must be protected from the queers! But Amy and I can get a marriage license–and into a sham marriage, if we care to, a joke marriage, one that I promise you won’t produce children. And we can do this with the state’s blessing–why? Because one of us is a man and one of us is a woman. Who cares that one of us is a gay man and one of us is a lesbian? So marriage is to be protected from the homos–unless the homos marry each other.
Is it putting too fine a point on it to say that this is a pretty fucked-up situation?
It’s the principle, whatnot. (via Queer Day)
