Comments on: Something old

By: lilysea

lilysea — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Yes. Precisely.

I hate the fact that I actually get all excited about the possibility (or the fact, in our case, in Canada) of legal marriage, when what I REALLY want is a social safety net that doesn’t privilege any particular family form over another.

By: Just Powers » Freedom to Marry

Just Powers » Freedom to Marry — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:24:00 +0000

[...] This week is the 11th Annual Freedom to Marry Week. In support, The Other Mother has asked bloggers to post on the themes something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue throughout the week. Today is something new. (Thanks to Doodaddy for letting me know about this, who heard about it from an amazing and powerful post by LesbianDad, who heard about it from the Other Mother.) [...]

By: megincl

megincl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:59:40 +0000

LD — Posts like this leave me with the goosebumps. Thanks for sharing your wisdom, foresight, and life as you do.

By: ullalauridsen

ullalauridsen — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:20:31 +0000

We’ve had “registered partnerships” in Denmark for very close to 20 years, and as anybody can see it somehow didn’t ruin the fabric of society.
Actually, I think it was seen from the start as domesticating the somewhat anarkistic lives of homos - today it is definitely in the category of “but naturally”.
Of course, the Danish equivalent of evangelicals are opposed to any step towards granting equal marriage rights (a very few bits are missing), but they have absolutely no say here - the religious party even failed to get into parliament.
Good luck with your campaign. I think, by the way, that Barack Obama is your best bet.

By: Chumpy

Chumpy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:18:18 +0000

Welcome back, and thanks for putting the ‘ah’ in Lesbiandad: or in this case, the ‘ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’.

Civil partnerships have been legal in the UK for a few years now. They confer next-of-kin status, legal and financial rights but not full parental rights.

It was wonderful when they first became law as there was a wave of ceremonies of all different types to attend. We opted for a shotgun piece of paper CP, sandwiched between 2s unpredictable health and the financially ruinous brink of 4 mouths to feed. After 13 years it was both too little too late and momentous.

1 still enthuses about the fairy dance she performed with other child guests at a more flamboyant celebration. ‘Civil Partnership’ is very much in her mindscape. She’s played civil parnerships a few times with an other CP attendee and mentions it herself when her future spouse is discussed.

By: ohchicken

ohchicken — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:34:47 +0000

you say it all so well. my hope and fear and ache. everything that keeps me awake at night, cradling my belly and snuggling into my love. i want to protect us.

By: SJnky

SJnky — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:30:34 +0000

Amen!! The time is always right, to do what is right — or says Martin Luther King Jr anyway, and I tend to think what he thinks It’s only right that these unions be made legal, and so very disappointing that it’s still such a struggle for some to have those basic rights obtained.

I have to believe it will change.