{"id":7105,"date":"2015-06-26T21:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2015-06-26T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T03:27:59","slug":"love-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/randomosity\/love-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Love wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was amazing<\/a>. I didn’t actually think the cards would fall this way, at least not now, not yet. <\/p>\n

But here we are. <\/p>\n

I cried at my desk today, multiple times. That’s not something a news-biz person is supposed to do but I won’t apologize for it. They were tears of amazement and relief and genuine joy for those people I know and love who want to get married and finally can.<\/p>\n

This is not about politics or religion. It’s about civil rights. Which is why I am unapologetic about my views on this issue. <\/p>\n

Every new story, every new photo, every silly new map showing the unified colors of a country now uniformly expected to hold up the standards of equal protection brought on the waterworks today. I wasn’t the only one. Not by a long shot. Feeling a cultural paradigm shift happen \u2014\u00a0a positive and historic one \u2014 is so rare and I am so grateful I lived to see this one because I’ve been rooting for it for a while, despite several years as a sullen teenager and young adult basking in ignorance and hatefulness, driven by some perverted concept of true faith I thought I had. I live with a lot of guilt over my views in those dark days. I hurt people with my hateful words. I can never take that back.<\/p>\n

But. <\/p>\n

Progress.<\/p>\n

I am so grateful my son is going to get to grow up in a country where we are all a little more equal in the eyes of the law than we were when I was a kid. That’s big. That’s the whole beautiful, messy point.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who fought for this victory. On to the next one now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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