Feb 10 2009
Because I live in a democratic Republic, where civil rights are not majority rule, and equality is something we promise to protect in our Constitution.
Because commitment should always be supported.
Because I’m in love with my best friend, and he and I enjoy benefits by legally marrying, and others should have the same.
For my stepdaughter, my friends, my family members who should have every right to happiness, joy, and family that I have.
This. Video.
Dec 27 2008
As an addendum to a post-baby boom blog of yesterday, more baby news!
Friends of ours, Doug and Neil, are fostering a newborn baby boy, born 12/18/08 and placed in their care a day later, and hope to adopt him after six months! They fostered a teenaged boy last year and hoped to adopt him, but with the stupid laws (he was from out of state, which was the problem) they weren’t able to. I hope this one goes much better!
Neil and I have been friends since the Dawn of Time (okay, more like 1988 or so) and Doug since they began dating ten or eleven years ago. Since they live in the Marshall area (Doug’s a professor here at the college), they helped us find a house when we moved here seven years ago, and I served on a city commission with Doug for a year.
Anyway, yay for more families! As an adoptee from foster care myself (back in 1968, when I was 2 1/2 years old) placed in a non-traditional family (my parents were childless and in their late forties and told they’d make terrible parents because of it), I salute them and support them and am thrilled for all three of them!
(I’ll add a picture if I get permission from them to post it!)
In the meantime, a picture of me shortly after my own adoption. 
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