I’m late to the table with my thoughts on gay marriage marriage equality passing in New York state last week but things have been crazy busy in the last ten days.
I’m on vacation this week and I’m sitting on a train speeding from London to Glasgow and I’m reminded of a quote from Jurassic Park, of all things. Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm is discussing the Park in the context of evolution’s penchant for life to escape all barriers. We are barely a minute out of the station and I look out the window to see plants and small trees growing out of the stone walls and Dr. Malcolm’s prophetic warning springs directly to mind. “Life finds a way.” Indeed.
Love is the same way. New York’s is merely the most recent government to realize the inevitability of marriage equality. Same sex couples the world over have found a way to make a family, with or without children, and let love rule.
You can ban marriage equality. You can imprison people for loving who they love. You can fire good soldiers for holding hands. But you cannot stop love. It endures.
