this is a big deal. i'd forgotten what good news feels like. maybe we can have nice things?
that's right. Gorsuch wrote the 6-3 majority opinion that you can't fire someone for being gay.
racking my brain, but i'm not sure where else it is legally possible to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. this could be total legal equality? in many ways, this is more important than marriage. i suppose there could be a federal Equality Act, and Conversion Therapy is still out there.
this is, however, what real change looks like. the Overton window was moved in 2003 in Massachusetts when the first same-sex marriages, and then the real work began.
the people who voted for Trump solely on the basis of SCOTUS must be banging their heads against the wall this morning.
and since SCOTUS is totally politicized, i think they (and especially John Roberts) have read the tea leaves: anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, whether religiously motivated or not, has been relegated to the basket of deplorables, alongside racism, anti-semitism, and sexist. all will continue to exist, gay people will still be beaten in the streets, but at least it won't be reflected in our laws.
intereference played a big part in my understanding of my life as a gay man, insofar as here is where i came to write down my political thoughts, and share some of my life, because the relative anonymity allowed me to do so. this was a very different place in 2003/4, America (and the western world) was a different place in 2003/4, and there were people who were seemingly well meaning ("civil unions should be fine") to the clearly discriminatory ("it's against the Bible") to those feigning concern as a way to wrap their bigotry in something seemingly kinder ("I just think all children need a mother and a father.") here was where i sharpened my arguments, was forced to do more research on the fly, and think and write, and think and write some more.
it almost feels like this is the end of a road. i can't force anyone to like me. if your book and your sky friend think i'm going to hell, well, that's fine, but you really can't do anything about it legally.
this is how it happens.
! That was a nice headline to see upon getting online. I'd like to hope they'll continue to be more supportive with the other issues mentioned, but yeah, not holding my breath 
. Still, nice to get some genuinely positive news. 
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