North Carolina On My Mind
I was planning on coming home from work tonight and continuing upon my post from earlier, but instead I feel compelled to purge my feelings about what happened in North Carolina today via written words.
My heart is literally aching. Tears began to well up when I got home and started to think on today’s impact.
I am so thankful that I live in Connecticut. That I live in a state where I will be afforded many of the same rights as my heterosexual counterparts should I meet someone (and I know in my heart I will) that I want to spend the rest of my mortal life with. I am so lucky. So incredibly lucky. And I know it.
I can only hope that when I am old and gray and married to my spouse, I will be able to look back on these days and remember that there used to be a time in my life when whom I took to bed and whom I loved mattered so much to people that votes were held to WILLINGLY discriminate against people like me.
North Carolina will certainly lose tourism money, job seekers from the northeast, and university students looking for a fair and open-minded place to expand their horizons. Soon enough parts of this country will just be seen as backwards beyond belief. So congratulations NC for joining Florida and Arizona for helping to set back civil progress a few decades.
And anyone who lives in North Carolina and wants out…come to Connecticut. We will welcome you with open arms, open minds, and open hearts!
Naked 