Why We’re Protecting Marriage

Here's a preface:

Many people know, or at least they will now, I'm not the most political person in the world. I get intimidated, annoyed, and frustrated by all the lobbying, spinning, twisting, and lying. Not to mention I don't pay attention to political news further than whatever is in bold at HuffingtonPost(although I suppose that's still more than a lot of people.) I was in political science in college during the 2000 election and I think that I am definitely one of those people that was numbed to politics by the horror that unfurled. That's probably when I stopped trying to be involved because…well, gee, there are so many reasons.

Anyhow, my girl and I have the same Valentine's Day tradition every year- eat fried chicken and go to the drive-in movie theater to see a horror movie. This year, traffic was bad and we got to dinner late and ended up missing our movie. Boo. So we headed over to a friend's house who was having a "couples only" Valentine's Day party.

The party was fun, lots of friends, about eight couples total. At one point, Jen, our host decided we would play The Newlywed game and significant others went back into the bedroom, with a list of questions and drew up answers that we would have to match. (It took, like, a million years, it seemed like for them to finish.)

I have to say, as a guy who has both the best and the worst memory for things, and like a lot of other men, I was worried that I wouldn't know anything about the woman that I had talked to everyday for the last six years and would look foolish. There were all sorts of questions, about favorite movies, favorite parts of each other's body, do you have a song, etc. etc.

There's nothing more I would like to do than reiterate one couples pet names, but what happens at a Valentine's Day Newlywed game party, stays at a you-get-the-idea. The only thing that made their pet names better was that they were (awesomely, amazingly) wrong! (Granted, I think he had written down "baby" and "baby" to protect them…)

Ok, Ok, I'm getting to the point of all this- There were eight couples, seven straight and one lesbian couple. After an hour and half of laughing and wincing and weird looks and almost-fights, the game was over and the lesbian couple took home the prize(a soda machine- it's hard to explain).

These two women, not allowed to be married legally, knew EVERYTHING about each other. Question after question there was no hesitation whatsoever. The smiled and laughed and knew exactly what turned each other on and what animal the other would be and generally, as casual as they might have been about it, loved each other endlessly.

I'm not trying to start a political dialogue about this subject, I know that one already exists. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, I just thought everyone should hear this story. I hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day, this year or for next.