Robin got a letter in today's Seattle Times on the recent Washington State Supreme Court decision upholding the ban on gay marriage with the peculiar logic that marriage should be reserved for procreative purposes only. Here it is.
The bride's anxiety
My husband and I have chosen not to have children.
Is the state going to revoke our marriage license, or do we have to apply for an annulment?
Does the Supreme Court ruling mean that infertile people and people over child-bearing age will be unable to obtain marriage licenses?
Please let me know soon, so that we can draw up the powers of attorney, so that we might visit each other in the hospital, rewrite our will, so that we may inherit from each other, and give back the wedding gifts, if we can remember who they came from 13 years later.
— Robin Shapiro, Seattle
Great letter. Please tell your wife thanks for writing it.
Posted by: Michelle | August 07, 2006 at 06:07 AM
Go Robin! I miss you guys.
Posted by: Felicity | August 07, 2006 at 09:23 AM
Beautiful.
Posted by: David Adam Edelstein | August 08, 2006 at 09:31 PM
Delightful, thanks!
Posted by: Joe Decker | August 09, 2006 at 06:19 PM