DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

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SCOTUS ruled today, striking down the key parts of DOMA, calling them Discriminatory, and rejected Prop 8, based on the ideology that a private group of citizens can't defend Prop 8, as they failed to show that they would be injured / damaged without it.

Part of me, Cheers. It's a great day. I'm proud to see that things are moving forward, and we are progressing.

Part of me, realizes there is still much work to do. Equality for all regardless of their Orientation (or any other discriminating factor) still has a LONG way to go.

And part of me, realizes that SCOTUS really highlighted the deep divisions and fractures in this country. They have left Marriage as something to be decided by the states. Never before in my life has the USA felt more like a conglomerate of small countries in a "union" instead of a nation, as it did when I realized that this means that at this point, a marriage can be completely valid in one state, and by crossing an imaginary line in the sand, become invalid, and the spouses looked upon as Sodomites by the government.

And, as all the comedians showed in the months leading up to this, my marriage is now totally invalid (read that last sentence with as much snark and sarcasm as you can possibly muster).

I mean. Jeez. 15 years together, 9 married, and what happened today? Nothing. Nothing changed. She is still my wife, I'm still her husband, we still love each other. I hope that I live to see a day when we stop caring what other people do, how they live, and who they love.