{"id":780,"date":"2004-04-09T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/09\/same-sex-marriage-does-so-effect-het-marriage\/"},"modified":"2004-04-09T12:55:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T20:55:50","slug":"same-sex-marriage-does-so-effect-het-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Marriage does so effect Het Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A post on Notes From the Tundra <\/a>suggests that opposite-sex marriages are <\/i>changed by same-sex marriage, after all. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

Speaking as someone who will have been in a state-sanctioned, state-approved, culturally -encouraged heterosexual marriage for ten years this October, I know that the recognition of SSM has an effect on how I feel about my own marriage. Because you see, something happened recently, just over a month ago now, something that has made me rethink my original “WTF?” response to the anti-SSM folks’ arguments.<\/p>\n

What happened just over a month ago now was that Multnomah County, Oregon–the county in which I live–ruled that for the state to refuse to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples was discriminatory and unconstitutional, and therefore ordered the county offices to stop denying marriage licenses to couples on the basis of gender.<\/p>\n

And that did <\/i>affect my feelings about my own marriage, and in ways far deeper and more profound than I ever would have anticipated. Something about my own marriage changed <\/i>last month. Something important.<\/p>\n

What changed about my marriage was that for the first time in nearly a decade, I could actually feel pretty okay about it.<\/p><\/div>\n

That doesn’t fully cover the author’s thoughts – I definitely recommend reading the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disclosure<\/i>: Hey, am I ethically required to mention that the writer I’m linking to is my housemate of nearly 20 years, or is that not necessary?.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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