I'd say that meeting people where they are and just being yourself is a good start.
I met some friends through an on-line motorcycle forum, one of whom was (coincidentally) my Subaru mechanic. He and I have become friends; he's someone who would get up, in foul weather, drive to your location, give you the shirt off his back, and help you…
I'd say that meeting people where they are and just being yourself is a good start.
I met some friends through an on-line motorcycle forum, one of whom was (coincidentally) my Subaru mechanic. He and I have become friends; he's someone who would get up, in foul weather, drive to your location, give you the shirt off his back, and help you with whatever you needed. As we got to know each other through riding, we'd to these "I have to take something to Florence; want to do a loop ride with me?" calls, and go for a ride, which always involved sharing a meal.
At one of those meals, he told me that he had rethought his position on gay marriage based on his getting to know me. He said it caused him to do some deep thinking, and shared with me that what he had really objected to was the privileges that marriage granted for everyone. He was a an enlisted USAF mechanic who, for his 12 years of service, had to live in barracks because he was single, and as a crew chief had E2's who were married that got to live off base. He married after he left the service, and said that he could understand why, as a couple that had been together for 25 years, my wife and I wanted some of the "for granted" married couple advantages; inheritances, decision making at time of death, and spousal medical insurance that marriage gave us.
Back well over a decade ago my wife and I stopped at a place in Florence called the Windward Inn that had the best pecan sticky buns we ever tasted. We were there 4 times, but the last time we were there the place had been sold and the food disappointing.
I find the social justice aspect of law to be generally well intentioned (but not always) and often uneven in the degree of advantage and protections it provides. I am glad to be married, but am aware it is a privileged category. There are many things we that could use a rethink to refine "liberty and justice for all".
I recall when Republicans took over Wisconsin, they made a big thing out of public employees getting benefits that others did not. Their solution was to take those benefits away. Heaven forbid we should consider broadening them. Meanwhile the 1% cried "Feed me!"
I'd say that meeting people where they are and just being yourself is a good start.
I met some friends through an on-line motorcycle forum, one of whom was (coincidentally) my Subaru mechanic. He and I have become friends; he's someone who would get up, in foul weather, drive to your location, give you the shirt off his back, and help you with whatever you needed. As we got to know each other through riding, we'd to these "I have to take something to Florence; want to do a loop ride with me?" calls, and go for a ride, which always involved sharing a meal.
At one of those meals, he told me that he had rethought his position on gay marriage based on his getting to know me. He said it caused him to do some deep thinking, and shared with me that what he had really objected to was the privileges that marriage granted for everyone. He was a an enlisted USAF mechanic who, for his 12 years of service, had to live in barracks because he was single, and as a crew chief had E2's who were married that got to live off base. He married after he left the service, and said that he could understand why, as a couple that had been together for 25 years, my wife and I wanted some of the "for granted" married couple advantages; inheritances, decision making at time of death, and spousal medical insurance that marriage gave us.
Back well over a decade ago my wife and I stopped at a place in Florence called the Windward Inn that had the best pecan sticky buns we ever tasted. We were there 4 times, but the last time we were there the place had been sold and the food disappointing.
I find the social justice aspect of law to be generally well intentioned (but not always) and often uneven in the degree of advantage and protections it provides. I am glad to be married, but am aware it is a privileged category. There are many things we that could use a rethink to refine "liberty and justice for all".
I recall when Republicans took over Wisconsin, they made a big thing out of public employees getting benefits that others did not. Their solution was to take those benefits away. Heaven forbid we should consider broadening them. Meanwhile the 1% cried "Feed me!"