Comments on: Senator Diane Savino: What Really Threatens Marriage http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/12/03/senator-diane-savino-what-really-threatens-marriage/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: helenboyd http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/12/03/senator-diane-savino-what-really-threatens-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-62973 helenboyd Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:01:27 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=9397#comment-62973 grace - thanks for pointing that out - i totally missed it! grace – thanks for pointing that out – i totally missed it!

]]> By: Grace.Annam http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/12/03/senator-diane-savino-what-really-threatens-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-62972 Grace.Annam Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:50:15 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=9397#comment-62972 "Do you think we're ready for that kind of commitment?" I LOVE it! :) I wouldn't take that bet against you, Helen, considering that she says, "I'm Roman Catholic" during her speech. This speech, which is awesome, reminds me of Dan Savage's account of when he went to get a marriage license with a friend of his who is a lesbian. [QUOTE]The clerk called over her manager, a nice older white man, who explained that Amy and Sonia couldn't have a marriage license. So I asked if Amy and I could have one--even though I'm gay and live with my boyfriend, and Amy's a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend. We emphasized to the clerk and her manager that Amy and I don't live together, we don't love each other, we don't plan to have kids together, and we're going to go on living and sleeping with our same-sex partners after we get married. So could we still get a marriage license? "Sure," the license-department manager said, "If you've got $54, you can have a marriage license."[/QUOTE] Grace “Do you think we’re ready for that kind of commitment?” I LOVE it! :)

I wouldn’t take that bet against you, Helen, considering that she says, “I’m Roman Catholic” during her speech.

This speech, which is awesome, reminds me of Dan Savage’s account of when he went to get a marriage license with a friend of his who is a lesbian.

[QUOTE]The clerk called over her manager, a nice older white man, who explained that Amy and Sonia couldn’t have a marriage license. So I asked if Amy and I could have one–even though I’m gay and live with my boyfriend, and Amy’s a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend. We emphasized to the clerk and her manager that Amy and I don’t live together, we don’t love each other, we don’t plan to have kids together, and we’re going to go on living and sleeping with our same-sex partners after we get married. So could we still get a marriage license?

“Sure,” the license-department manager said, “If you’ve got $54, you can have a marriage license.”[/QUOTE]

Grace

]]> By: divadarya http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/12/03/senator-diane-savino-what-really-threatens-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-62971 divadarya Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:09:04 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=9397#comment-62971 Wow. What a cogent, lucid, argument. No wonder the Republicans voted against it. Wow. What a cogent, lucid, argument. No wonder the Republicans voted against it.

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