the "Normal" lie

Yesterday I was in the hospital with Joey, this time because she has hurt her arm and needed an x-ray.
While we waited we met a young man who couldn't have been 21. He was very gentle and sweet.
I sat next to him in the hall way while Joey rested on a stretcher.
After a while, we learned that the young pregnant girl who'd been with him in the waiting room was his wife.
I was turned away from what was happening with his family and speaking soundlessly to Joey so I could comment about what was going on with other people in the rooms around her. Between us we knew most of the staff and some of the patients and the people who were with them.
I turned back to see the young woman in her husband's arms, while I sat with Joey, feet apart.
It isn't fair.

We rarely touch in public. We touch some at my parents' house. Joey barely looks at me at her parents' house. We hold hands without stress once or twice a year, at Pride events. Or if we go to a noisy, smoky bar.
The boy and his wife can do it anytime, anywhere.

And she can have access to his information and see him without question.

So far, the people at the hospital have been nice to us. But one person can change the way things have been going in an instant.

And the good people of Florida can legalize our separateness and alienation thinking they are saving everything that's good and righteous and right when they vote in November.

The Republican Party does not give a damn how the vote goes. They just want an issue that will get people to the polls.

Both sides are represented here:

http://www.floridaredandblue.com/

http://www.sayno2.com/

http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1417

http://www.florida4marriage.org/

http://www.christchurchofpeace.org/ktnf/amendment-and-you.html

Nice people, humble, pious, think they're doing good. They might as well form an Inquisition.
Or just declare open season on anyone who isn't exactly what they want them to be.