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karen kingsley's avatar

You will never know who your words will reach. My now 96-year-old very Catholic mother changed her mind about gay marriage after a rant from Keith Olberman. It wasn’t you, but it was someone and he doesn’t know what he did either.

What that change meant was that my gay cousin, who waited to marry her partner of 30 years until her own parents were dead, was warmly welcomed into my parents’ home. We celebrated their marriage. They shared a guest room just like every married couple.

When my dad died, that cousin beat me to my mom’s house, a several hour flight for both of us. I don’t think these facts are unrelated.

Carry on. It’s working.

PS — your husband is hot.

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Kathi Miller's avatar

Connie, you need to keep shouting our truths. They are not stale and need to be heard. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for you and Sherrod being strong allies. My wife and I just returned from a three week Alaska trip. We were often mistaken for sisters. Some ventured to ask how long we had been together-22 years, more than many of the heterosexual couples we met. Then they asked how long we had been married-14 years. That eight year gap denied me the right to have my wife covered by my employer health insurance. Then it taxed that insurance as it was income. Then I had to file claims when same-sex marriage was legalized so I could recoup that money. My wife and I were never “groomed” or groomers. We like many of our friends don’t have the time nor the inclination. We live our lives pretty much like others. We are too busy scheduling plumbers when the toilet has a leak, scheduling the roofer when it leaks, being election judges, volunteering at our local nature center and enjoying trips to beautiful Alaska. My wife and I hope that some of the people we met on our trip have a new understanding of how similar we are to them. But we don’t dwell on it because we are too busy living our lives to be concerned about what others think of us

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