another win

[chelidon]

I've been mostly offline for a while, so much is going on, I don't even know where to begin. Tomorrow we're going to spend the day out helping a friend and his family after he had a motorcycle accident a couple of weeks ago that will keep him immobilized (and out of work) for at least a few months. We'll stop at the farmer's market on the way and pick up a bunch of food so we can fill their larder, chop firewood, and help out with all of the pre-winter chores, 'cause that's what you do around here.

Speaking of what you do around here, two stories that made my day:

Connecticut Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage

Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage

Now both Connecticut and Massachusetts have legalized same-sex marriages, Vermont and New Hampshire have same-sex civil unions, and Maine has a domestic partnership law that covers same-sex couples. Not because New England is uniformly liberal (though parts of Mass and Vermont are), but because in what I know of New England ethics, your personal and sexual life is a personal and private matter, nobody else's damn business, and to discriminate against someone on that basis is just plain *rude*. What you choose to do on your side of the fence -- your own personal, sexual, religious life, whatever, is yours to pursue, so long as you don't come over to *my* side of the fence and make it my business or try to tell me how to live. I may or may not agree with how you live your life, but I have the right to decide whether I choose to associate with you. I have no such right to infringe on your freedom to live your life as you choose, or to intrude on your personal life. That's just wrong.

Ah-yup. Works for me.

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[yezida.livejournal.com]

Thanks for helping out W and J.

Send them both my love, please.