Source: Reuters, via Buzzfeed

BuzzFeed published a couple of photo sets recently about marriage equality in Washington state and elsewhere:

20 Photos That Could Change Someone’s Mind About Gay Marriage

and

60 Moments That Gave Me The Chills During Seattle’s First Day Of Marriage Equality

I admit that there was a time when I did not understand the marriage equality issue. I didn’t see why it was such a big deal. Quite a few people still oppose allow people to marry the consenting adult of their choice. They cite many reasons, all of them ultimately indefensible. But that’s not why I’m writing this today.

Look at the pictures at these links. Look at the people who have spent decades waiting for the society in which they live to accept their love as worthy of recognition.

Source: Meryl Schenker/ZUMAPRESS.com, via BuzzFeed

If you can look at these pictures, and see the joy that is so much in evidence, and yet you still maintain that limiting marriage to your particular view of it is more important than their happiness, then I have nothing kind to say to you.

Honestly, I want to tell you to go to hell. But I won’t.

If you look at these faces full of love, of lifelong commitments finally brought out of the shadows to show that they are no different than what society has deemed “normal” after all, and you still believe that your world is somehow under threat, then it is clear to me that you are already living in a hell of your own making.