One woman's story
Sep. 7th, 2005 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusNo, this isn't about New Orleans.
That whole situation is totally fucked up, and many others have said it, and why, much better than I can.
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contentlove has a lot of it, much of which has been reposted elsewhere throughout the blogosphere.
And, of course, there's the famousinterdictor.
But, I just recently came across an old story of a friend of mine:
http://www.ginadaggett.com/one_couple.htm
This is from several years ago. My friend Lisa was fighting with immigration to allow her girlfriend, now her wife, to be allowed to stay in the United States.
The religious wackjobs who run our government right now decided this was not to be.
They got married in Portland a few years back, when it became legal there for, what, about a week?
They were apparently a threat to all things Good Godly and American, though.
The epilogue:
Lisa and Els now live happily in Belgium.
Perhaps not as happy as they would have been in Portland, with their family and their friends, but at least they have a sane government who will recognize their marriage, which is no longer recognized in the town in which it was performed.
Religious nutjobs decided it was better to kick them out of the country than to risk people thinking that their love was OK.
They need to read their own damn bible:
That whole situation is totally fucked up, and many others have said it, and why, much better than I can.
contentlove has a lot of it, much of which has been reposted elsewhere throughout the blogosphere.And, of course, there's the famous
interdictor.But, I just recently came across an old story of a friend of mine:
http://www.ginadaggett.com/one_couple.htm
This is from several years ago. My friend Lisa was fighting with immigration to allow her girlfriend, now her wife, to be allowed to stay in the United States.
The religious wackjobs who run our government right now decided this was not to be.
They got married in Portland a few years back, when it became legal there for, what, about a week?
They were apparently a threat to all things Good Godly and American, though.
The epilogue:
Lisa and Els now live happily in Belgium.
Perhaps not as happy as they would have been in Portland, with their family and their friends, but at least they have a sane government who will recognize their marriage, which is no longer recognized in the town in which it was performed.
Religious nutjobs decided it was better to kick them out of the country than to risk people thinking that their love was OK.
They need to read their own damn bible:
"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."
(1 John 4:7)
