Back in the 70′s my husband and I were living in a small town in Ohio. We made friends with an interracial couple, one of the first in the town I daresay. When the couple decided to marry they couldn’t find a church who would marry them so they were married in my living room. We had a great party.

Your comment about a brown baby reminded me of something the child of another couple who were friends said to me one day. He said, “in the winter I’m the same color of green as my mom and in the summer the same color of green as my dad.” This child at this point knew no prejudice and had not encountered it in his young life. I would love to believe that held true for the rest of his life but unfortunately I’m sure it did not.

I left the fundamentalist church when politics replaced spirituality and hatred for gays became a driving force. I lived in Key West, Florida for awhile and it was there I made so many homosexual friends. It hurts me for them that they are treated so shabbily by their country.

We will all keep fighting for the GLBT right to marry. After all in Loving v. Virginia the Supreme Court said:

“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”

In Meyer v. Nebraska the Supreme Court stated:

“While this court has not attempted to define with exactness the liberty thus guaranteed, the term has received much consideration and some of the included things have been definitely stated. Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and generally to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.”

I hope you will drop by my blog again.