Hello Beautiful People,
This weekend, Love Won.
And the teacher in me can’t help but make it a teaching moment for you all.
I, am straight.
There’s never been a question about who I could or could not marry in this country. There’s never been a thought in my mind about my marriage being accepted.
Never.
I can’t say the same for other friends of mine.
Beautiful people I know, inside & out, have worried about their love – whether it would be accepted. Whether their chosen person would be OK after he or she had passed. Whether they could live and love without fear or hurt.
This weekend, Love Won. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage was right, nation wide.
Here’s what’s going through my head –
The student who tried to hang herself because she was gay.
One of the best students I’ve ever had, getting death threats because he was gay.
The raw hurt of one of my best friends when her girlfriend wasn’t welcomed by her family.
Today, those who are homosexual no longer have to feel like they have to hide in the shadows. Their light and love and warmth can be celebrated. It can be shouted from rooftops. For it has been so ordered…
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become
something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
Love. Wins. With love as guiding beacon of light – the world will be a better place.
For the past seventy – two hours, my newsfeed, rainbows have been a constant on my newsfeed. As a good friend of mine said, I’m rainbow high.
But, all kidding aside, the amount of rainbows constantly popping up on my newsfeed is absolutely beautiful. Gay, lesbian, straight, transgender – I’ve never seen so many people stand in unity for a cause – all in the name of love.
What a wonderful time to be alive, what a great country in which we live. Love is love. Love is for all. Let love lead the way.
Live, Love, Learn,