Rob Tisinai at Box Turtle Bulletin expresses beautifully why I cried watching Edie Windsor speak today:
What moved me most was her description of how she’d been closeted for so many years, and how she was so grateful today for the kindness in how the Justices treated her.
She was grateful for their kindness.
Take a moment to realize that for most of her life, this kindness — this civility and dignity and respect — was something she and Thea had no reason to expect. It breaks my heart with regret at what these women had to live through, and it breaks my heart with joy that this heroine has never let it overcome her. Edie Windsor has overcome, no matter what the Court decides.
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| Edie Windsor & Thea Spyer |
THANK YOU!
I am extremely hopeful that DOMA will be overturned. Shortly after marriage equality was confirmed by Washington when the referendum passed, a young couple was married in our church. One of the young women had been worshipping with us while her partner, a nurse, was deployed in Afghanistan. They had been a committed couple for some time but married officially in Washington before the service member was
ReplyDeletereassigned to a new base. With DOMA gone, they will be treated like any other military family by their government. Thanks, Edie Windsor. I think she would approve.