Dear Same Sex Couples,
I was so moved seeing all of the love couples getting married at San Francisco City Hall and all over California this week. I hope the haters and religious fanatics don’t get to change the constituion and that your rights to live and love like anyone else are saved. May your love and commitment bless your lives and bring joy to all of your friends and families.
P.S. Now that gay marriage is legal, does that mean that gay divorce is now legal too? Will the first gay divorces be in the news as groundbreaking too?
Love,
Jana
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This is going to kill our tourist industry. Now gay couples won’t need to fly north to marry any more.
What a terrific idea… I am enjoying your postcards so much!
The Oregonian had a large front page photo of two (old) women who had lived together for a very long time, beaming because they could finally marry. I thought, surely no one can object to this!!! Governments are ultimately going to fail at trying to legislate love.
Sharon, I saw them on the TV news too. It was bittersweet since they’re now so elderly and one is in a wheelchair and seems in poor health. I agree about legislating love. You’d think they’d want to promote any kind of love with all the hate in the world right now.
There are already gay divorces taking place in states that have had gay marriage for awhile. But there’s a serious problem: states that don’t acknowledge gay marriage will not do these divorces. And most if not all states have residency requirements for one to file for divorce. So now, gays who have marriages on the books have serious potential financial problems unless they want to move back to some state that has gay divorce in order to get one. Most people can’t just up and leave where they are without significant hassle and upheaval.
Legally speaking, marriages have a lot in common with business incorporation agreements. Someone who is married to someone they don’t trust is at a huge liability risk.