Mexico May Get Better For Same-Sex Couples

Almost a year ago, Mexico City started allowing most same-sex couples to marry and adopt children. Now the national House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to change social security rules to include medical and social benefits for same-sex couples. It still needs to get all the way through the legislative process (the Senate, etc.), and it wouldn’t be marriage, but it is a step in the direction of the freedom to marry for most same-sex couples.

Let’s keep the momentum moving in North America towards full marriage equality, so that any person will have the right to marry the person or person(s) of his or her choosing.

Veterans Day

It is Veterans Day in the US. Our military is still dealing with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which prevents LGBT people who are open about their orientation from serving in the military. Court cases are going back and forth, but the expectation is that LGBT people will gain the right to serve openly, especially since the President is against DADT.

I can’t help but think of the men and women who risked their lives (and those who gave them) and endured so many things in service to their country, who haven’t been free to be who they really are and share their lives openly with the person or persons they love.

Shouldn’t someone who risked their life for this county be able to marry someone of the same sex, or more than one person, or a biological relative? Or at least share a life with the person(s) he or she loves without a fear that their own government will be against them? Is bravery and valor negated if a man loves another man, or his long lost sister?

Let’s thank our veterans, especially those who are still being treated as second class citizens.