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04/01/2008
Marriage inequity: Electability doesn't immunize you from hassle
Oh, to be gay in America. It's a land where you still have to fight for your right to marry. A country where you oftentimes feel uncomfortable expressing intimacy in a public arena. A place where you sometimes have to get the Speaker of the House to intervene so that the Pentagon will treat your domestic partner in the same way that they treat your heterosexual counterparts' spouses.
Okay, so that last thing probably never did and never will happen to you. It did, however, recently happen to out lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), whose partner, Lauren Azar, was initially prevented from traveling with the Rep. on a congressional fact-finding trip to Europe, forcing Nancy Pelosi to step in and lay the smack down:
Pentagon balked on gay partner travel [Politico]
But hey, at least this mindless hassling helped our country make one more stride towards "marriage protection." What's that saying: "Every time a gay couple's life commitment is baselessly pestered, a straight couple falls even more in love"?
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