Soapbox

Wedding Vows

Dear Ohio Attorney General DeWine,

    On behalf of my husband and myself, I would like to express our abiding gratitude for your tireless efforts to keep us together as man and wife. 
     As my daughter plans her wedding to the woman she loves so dearly, I breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that you are on the job, spending my tax dollars to keep them legally apart, so that her father and I can retain the sanctity of our own marriage.

    I know that some today think it is ignorant and undemocratic to cling to primative prejudices and deny some citizens equal rights simply because they think and feel differently than the majority.  But without you to defend marriage from people like her who want to get married, who knows what the future might hold?
    Thanks in no small part to you and your courageous actions before the courts, we may never have to know the horror of these two young people being able to have the full protections of matrimony as they save to purchase their first home, build their careers and plan their family. Why even unto death, you are vigilant, making sure that they will have to move to some other state if they want to call each 'spouse' on a death certificate. Because what greater threat could there be to the stability of our beloved Ohio than that?

    It is a relief to know that, if her partner becomes the biological mother of their children, my lovely daughter will never be able to have legal custody rights to the family they raise and sacrifice for together. And my husband and I will never, in the eyes of the state, be the grandparents of the beautiful babies we bounce on our knees.

    And so, for these and all the other special things you have done to for us, I would like to extend to you an invitation to the ceremony they are planning. Please come and see the flowers, hear the music, witness their trembling hands and flushed faces at the altar and gaze into the misty, joyful eyes of their loving family and friends, so that you can fully appreciate in your heart just what it is that you have protected us from.

    Because without your efforts to defend us, when the big day arrrives and we all throw rice and cheer, those two happy young people might walk back down the aisle- not just together in their hearts but also united in wedlock. 

    So f**k you for saving us from all of that. Yes, f**k you so much from the very bottom of our broken hearts.

    Sincerely-
          A lot of Ohio parents, who wouldn't vote for you if you were the last candidate on earth.