Today, at the stroke of midnight, the state of New York started allowing same-sex couples to marry. Or, rather, started issuing marriage licenses for people to legally do so and to get equal rights and protection under the laws which govern straight couples.
I've been seeing some of the build-up to this. Most of the pictures are of people who are incredibly photogenic and look like they've walked out of some kind of billboards. Sure, there are people in the stories who are talking about their decades together, but the media tend to grab hold of the stereotypical images for something like this.
Which made me very happy when I saw the following photo showing up on a few news sites. (I borrowed it from the New York Post site.)
There is something about the joy and happiness in this photo of two people who have been together for 23 years and will get to spend the rest of their lives enjoying the same rights and privileges of the other long-term couples around them.
From AP/Getty Images: Chelsea residents Phyllis Siegel, 77, and Connie Kopelov, 85, got hitched at the marriage bureau on Worth Street in Lower Manhattan at 9:02 a.m., setting off wedding bells across Gotham.
Oh. Hell. Who am I kidding? There's no way in the world they were thinking about any of the politics in this photo.
And, you know, isn't that the way marriage ought to be?
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