NWR: WAY TO GO, PENNSYLVANIA!!!

HisGirlFriday13

Hey, y'all, PA decided to join the 21st century -- our state supreme court today declared the state's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional!!!

The whole big long decision is HERE, but the relevant part is:

CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, we hold that Pennsylvania’s Marriage Laws violate both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Because these laws are unconstitutional, we shall enter an order permanently enjoining their enforcement. By virtue of this ruling, same-sex couples who seek to marry in Pennsylvania may do so, and already married same-sex couples will be recognized as such in the Commonwealth. 

JCbride2015

Love love love!!!!!

smalfrie19

Huzzahh!!

Cookie Pusher

I just saw this and was going to post! Go Pennsylvania!!

Peaseblossom55

Yay!

DaisyMaeMommy

chibiyui

theartistformerlyknownas

Woohoo! You get a wedding, YOU get a wedding, EVERYBODY GETS A WEDDING!

Inkdancer

Well now I like one thing about PA other than birch beer.

phira

YAY!!!

A whole corner of the map now!

I've only ever lived in MA (not counting the two months I lived in another state as an infant), and back in 2003, the importance of the legalization of same-sex marriage in my state wasn't entirely clear to me. Like, I knew it was a good thing, and I knew people who got married within the first year or two. But I guess I didn't realize we were the ONLY state, or how much of a step it was.

And honestly, I hope that by the time I'm raising kids, they'll only ever live in a country with marriage equality for all as a given, instead of something we're still fighting for.

grumbledore

Every time another state gets checked off this list, my heart gets happier.

Next, marijuana legalization.  

HisGirlFriday13

grumbledore said:

Every time another state gets checked off this list, my heart gets happier.

Next, marijuana legalization.  

We might actually manage that this year. It's pretty much the one thing Corbett is opposed to that he could change his mind on and win over voters.

He's opposed to same-sex marriage, but OH WELL, that decision has been made.

So who knows?

VulgarGirl

phira said:

YAY!!!

A whole corner of the map now!

I've only ever lived in MA (not counting the two months I lived in another state as an infant), and back in 2003, the importance of the legalization of same-sex marriage in my state wasn't entirely clear to me. Like, I knew it was a good thing, and I knew people who got married within the first year or two. But I guess I didn't realize we were the ONLY state, or how much of a step it was.

And honestly, I hope that by the time I'm raising kids, they'll only ever live in a country with marriage equality for all as a given, instead of something we're still fighting for.

I really hope my kids look at same sex marriage not being legal, the same way I look at interracial marriage not being legal. I cannot grasp how at one point, it was illegal for two people of different races to marry. Like how can that even kind of matter? I want that to be my kids with same-sex marriage. Like who cares if two dudes get married, how does that matter?

VulgarGirl

And now, since the US QAF was set in PA....QAF gifs.

wandajune6

MagicInk said:

phira said:

YAY!!!

A whole corner of the map now!

I've only ever lived in MA (not counting the two months I lived in another state as an infant), and back in 2003, the importance of the legalization of same-sex marriage in my state wasn't entirely clear to me. Like, I knew it was a good thing, and I knew people who got married within the first year or two. But I guess I didn't realize we were the ONLY state, or how much of a step it was.

And honestly, I hope that by the time I'm raising kids, they'll only ever live in a country with marriage equality for all as a given, instead of something we're still fighting for.

I really hope my kids look at same sex marriage not being legal, the same way I look at interracial marriage not being legal. I cannot grasp how at one point, it was illegal for two people of different races to marry. Like how can that even kind of matter? I want that to be my kids with same-sex marriage. Like who cares if two dudes get married, how does that matter?

This.

phira

MagicInk said:

phira said:

YAY!!!

A whole corner of the map now!

I've only ever lived in MA (not counting the two months I lived in another state as an infant), and back in 2003, the importance of the legalization of same-sex marriage in my state wasn't entirely clear to me. Like, I knew it was a good thing, and I knew people who got married within the first year or two. But I guess I didn't realize we were the ONLY state, or how much of a step it was.

And honestly, I hope that by the time I'm raising kids, they'll only ever live in a country with marriage equality for all as a given, instead of something we're still fighting for.

I really hope my kids look at same sex marriage not being legal, the same way I look at interracial marriage not being legal. I cannot grasp how at one point, it was illegal for two people of different races to marry. Like how can that even kind of matter? I want that to be my kids with same-sex marriage. Like who cares if two dudes get married, how does that matter?

Absofuckinglutely.

When Obama was elected in 2008, I was in college, and my advisor was really emotional about the election. When we asked him why, he explained that he remembers how normal "whites only" and "coloreds only" signs were. The concept of a black president was just mind-blowing (in a good way). I hadn't really thought about how much of a big deal it was, given that growing up in the 80s and 90s in New England meant that was just stuff from a history textbook and not a lived experience.

There's this old riddle that my aunt and uncle told their kids: A father and his son get into a car accident and are rushed to the hospital. However, the surgeon arrives to operate on the boy and says, "I can't operate; that's my son." How can this be?

The answer is supposed to be, "It's his mother," to point out that "doctors are men" is a sexist assumption. Instead, one of my cousins (who was probably like ... 7 at the time) just shrugged and said, "Duh, it's his other dad," and didn't understand why this was supposed to be a riddle. Because the concept of a child having two dads (which needed to be considered impossible or absurd for the riddle to work as intended) was so normal to him that it wasn't a riddle at all.

pinkshorts27

phira said:

MagicInk said:

phira said:

YAY!!!

A whole corner of the map now!

I've only ever lived in MA (not counting the two months I lived in another state as an infant), and back in 2003, the importance of the legalization of same-sex marriage in my state wasn't entirely clear to me. Like, I knew it was a good thing, and I knew people who got married within the first year or two. But I guess I didn't realize we were the ONLY state, or how much of a step it was.

And honestly, I hope that by the time I'm raising kids, they'll only ever live in a country with marriage equality for all as a given, instead of something we're still fighting for.

I really hope my kids look at same sex marriage not being legal, the same way I look at interracial marriage not being legal. I cannot grasp how at one point, it was illegal for two people of different races to marry. Like how can that even kind of matter? I want that to be my kids with same-sex marriage. Like who cares if two dudes get married, how does that matter?

Absofuckinglutely.

When Obama was elected in 2008, I was in college, and my advisor was really emotional about the election. When we asked him why, he explained that he remembers how normal "whites only" and "coloreds only" signs were. The concept of a black president was just mind-blowing (in a good way). I hadn't really thought about how much of a big deal it was, given that growing up in the 80s and 90s in New England meant that was just stuff from a history textbook and not a lived experience.

There's this old riddle that my aunt and uncle told their kids: A father and his son get into a car accident and are rushed to the hospital. However, the surgeon arrives to operate on the boy and says, "I can't operate; that's my son." How can this be?

The answer is supposed to be, "It's his mother," to point out that "doctors are men" is a sexist assumption. Instead, one of my cousins (who was probably like ... 7 at the time) just shrugged and said, "Duh, it's his other dad," and didn't understand why this was supposed to be a riddle. Because the concept of a child having two dads (which needed to be considered impossible or absurd for the riddle to work as intended) was so normal to him that it wasn't a riddle at all.

I'm not sure that kids answer was good for female surgeons.

ETA: woo for Pennsylvania. It has been a good week for this country

phira

@pinkshorts27 Yeah, my aunt was like, "Yea--no, wait a second!"

lyndausvi

way to go PA.

bmydesigner

I'm a PA resident as well and was so excited to hear this news it's about damn time!!