9,000+ Miles away, and I am riveted by a typical Minnesotan talking about the Gay Marriage Ban that is being voted on the the State House shortly.
An Australian co-worker of mine told me last week that the American Gay Community seems so hung up on the idea of Gay Marriage. He, an older, gay man, have been with his partner for 21 years but has never had the want, or the need, to get married.
"Perhaps it is another cultural difference" I told him. Americans seem to be brought up with the expectation of Marriage, this milestone that everyone should go through... and to have it taken away because some people think loving someone of the same sex is "sinful" and "wrong" means I don't get that milestone... and I for one... and a completionist.
I told him that Australia has a significant, and realistic alternative to marriage, and that both straight and gay couples exercise that right.
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