Nutella is so hipster it makes me cry

How would you feel if I voted on your marriage?

In the state of Washington, marriage equality is supposed to be legal starting on June 7. Unless anti-marriage groups get enough signatures to put it on the ballot, gay and lesbian couples will be able to marry the person they love.

Naturally, anti-marriage groups are still gathering signatures. There’s a chance they won’t have enough by June 7, but there’s an equal chance that they will.

If the right to marry is put on the ballot, it will probably fail. It has already been put to the ballot in over thirty states, and it has failed in every one. I’m scared as Hell that the hate groups will win this time.

Not only because I wanted to get married in Seattle, but because thousands of families won’t be recognized equally under the law.

I have a countdown of the days until marriage equality could be legalized in Washington: 9 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes and 8 seconds, starting from the time I wrote this sentence. I’ve had this countdown since I found out that people like me might be able to get married there, if anti-marriage groups didn’t win.

About a week ago, I had some real hope. Then, I found out how many signatures that the hate group known as “Protect Marriage Washington” was able to collect. Not all of them are going to be valid signatures, but they have passed the amount of signatures needed. If they can collect 150,000, they’ll probably have enough valid signatures. They already have over 130,000.

130,000 people have signed a piece of paper because they believe that my marriage isn’t worth equal protections by the government.

130,000.

How would they feel if I put their marriage on a ballot, and asked the whole state to vote on it? How would they feel if I drove around with obnoxious bumper stickers proclaiming that their marriage was wrong? How would they feel if I denied them hospital visitation while their husband or wife was dying, because they didn’t have the right to visit them?

Sometimes, democracy feels like hypocrisy. I have to keep in mind that America is in constant motion toward equality. Less than a decade ago, we couldn’t get married anywhere. Now, we can marry in six states, plus Washington D.C. Even with these setbacks, things are looking up.

No matter what anti-marriage groups do to us, we are NEVER going away.

My temporary laptop situation = derp

Which is why I haven’t been on Tumblr as much. My laptop died, so now I’m using this old crappy Dell thingy. Of course, I have no idea when I’m going to get it back, but I haven’t had it for more than three weeks. Pretty sure it’s still sitting at Best Buy, or maybe in Cyndy’s car like my last laptop that died.

Which I’d also like back, because it has some precious data on it. Like my best novel that I’ve written so far. Not that either of you fucktards would care.