Tuesday, April 06, 2010

C'Mon Nebraska!


Well, it's been a year since the Iowa Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriages to be legal in Iowa, over the weekend a rally in Omaha called for Nebraska to follow suit.
Gay and lesbian couples and supporters of marriage equality from both Nebraska and Iowa walked onto the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge and met in the middle with a message.


"As soon as you cross the line, you're no longer married. You realize that? We've got to help Nebraska change that," said rally attendee Susie Brenner, who married her partner, Linda Beckstead, in Iowa after the ruling made it legal. Their union is unrecognized in Nebraska. "We live in Omaha and we get no benefits," Brenner said. "We wanted to get married on the first day available and we want Nebraska to join with Iowa and make it happen."

And we want California, and New York, and New Jersey, and, hell, even South Carolina, to meet in the middle and realize that marriage equality is a civil right, not a religious one.

Come on, Nebraska, you can do it. It happened just across the river and they're doing fine over there.

2 comments:

  1. Geez, this is not the 18th century anymore, come on legislators, get your rear in gear and pass same-sex marriage laws in all of the 50 states. People should be able to marry whomever they want to and get all of the benefits. It is just the man trying to keep certain people down. Great blog by the way! JR

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