Thanks, Dean. You interpreted correctly, I didn't post this as an announcement, I figured folks got wind of that Thursday and over the weekend. I posted it as a photograph, thus the different presentation style. As I mentioned when we spoke the other night, I would like the image be discussed in human terms; what it makes people think about, not the knee-jerk condolence.
If everyone concerned was okay with "going political", I think it would be a very useful image for the equality fight.
Even here in "moderate" Minnesota, there's a constitutional amendment on the ballot to outlaw same sex marriage. It seems (to me) to add to the moral argument if you show the human face of what legal second status really means. If people can look at two greybeards at a deathbed scene and still think government should interfere in human arrangements (allowing, for example, hospitals to refuse admittance to an outlawed spouse if parents or siblings request it), then maybe more people can see the moral failure of the law and its supporters.
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Maybe this fall in CHI.
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Even here in "moderate" Minnesota, there's a constitutional amendment on the ballot to outlaw same sex marriage. It seems (to me) to add to the moral argument if you show the human face of what legal second status really means. If people can look at two greybeards at a deathbed scene and still think government should interfere in human arrangements (allowing, for example, hospitals to refuse admittance to an outlawed spouse if parents or siblings request it), then maybe more people can see the moral failure of the law and its supporters.