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BrienDoesIt

(93 posts)
17. You're not wrong. At all.
Wed Nov 16, 2022, 07:58 PM
Nov 2022

I thought we were good. Ive been working on this shit for a long time. Almost 40 years. I've watched us be drug through the mud during the aids crisis. I have fought since the day I came out for equality. I went on national TV at 15 to show that yes, even gay teenagers exist at a time when you didn't talk about that.

It sucks to have it and then fearing it's going to be yanked back. This isn't just a law to me, it's personal. On a multitude of levels.

That's why I can't see this as the great law everyone else thinks it is. I've fought hard. And now there's a chance it'll be gone . And there is nothing I can do about it. I am literally powerless to stop the idea that we were accepted and now we aren't.

But to your point, it's the best im gonna get. Oh well. I guess if I really hate it I could move lol

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Looking forward to this discussion. ShazzieB Nov 2022 #1
Here's a decent article on how things could play out. Solly Mack Nov 2022 #2
So it's exactly as I thought - it still allows states to discriminate. BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #5
It offers federal protections but if Obergefell falls, states that want to discriminate can, yes Solly Mack Nov 2022 #6
I think the fed protections are a good thing. Very much so. BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #7
That is one of the many questions - how it plays out on the state level Solly Mack Nov 2022 #8
No one I'm discussing this with gets that. BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #9
You need to look at two cases: 1) as it is now and 2) if the SC over turns same sex marriage rights karynnj Nov 2022 #3
I'm not asking for this law to not go through.... BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #4
It isn't a step backwards. Just a tiny step forward as laws go. ColinC Nov 2022 #10
But isn't it giving states the right to deny you a marriage license? BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #11
It is. Which is how it is already as far as the laws on the books. ColinC Nov 2022 #12
What good is the progress if, in order to be protected by it, I have to take a vacation to get it? BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #14
That's kinda how progress works unfortunately ColinC Nov 2022 #15
You're not wrong. At all. BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #17
It is not a step backwards because it ONLY has consequence if the SC acts karynnj Nov 2022 #13
I guess I don't see it this way. BrienDoesIt Nov 2022 #16
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