More Good News on the Same-Sex Marriage Front

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 4:51 AM on April 9, 2009.

The Washington, D.C. City Council has voted unanimously to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. What that means, in practical terms, is that a same-sex couple married in Boston, for example, can move to D.C. and still have their marriage legally recognized just like the marriage of any straight couple legally married anywhere else in the country would be, which is exactly the thing that DOMA was passed to allow states to avoid doing.

This is another Very Big Deal.

At the link, you can find video of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty discussing the council's decision, as well as the fact that a vote to legalize same-sex marriages in D.C. is both inevitable and also likely to be unanimous. The thing that's amazing to me is how casually and matter-of-factly he discusses the whole thing, which maybe even more than the decision itself shows how far we've really come.

As I've said before, all social progress really is, in the end, is making the extraordinary seem ordinary.

And damn if the yawn-inducing noncontroversial ordinariness of same-sex marriage doesn't make me blub.

[H/T to Shakers JR_JR and Hannah.]

Tagged as: lgbt rights

Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.