A list for 6 December, 2012…

…when the Washington State law allowing same-sex marriage went into effect.

Marriage is:

·         A confluence of two lives

·         A public, explicit statement of an agreement that has already been entered into in private and implicitly at a profound personal level

·         A celebration of having found another person upon whose happiness and well-being your own depends

·         Built on a foundation of love and respect or it is nothing

·         Tough, for anyone of any sexual orientation

·         Personal

 

Marriage is not:

·         Based primarily on sex, particularly in a day when few people go into a wedding as virgins and most of us will outlive our libidos.

·         Based on the tenets of a particular religion , especially when you consider that as an institution it predates the religious traditions of the people fighting gay marriage

·         Limited to those of us on the “right” side of the sexual orientation line

·         Designed solely for the creation of progeny

·         The province of a particular political party of my former affiliation

·         Selfish, internally or externally

·         Easy, for anyone of any sexual orientation