We can all get they-ah from hee-ah
Filed by: Guest Blogger
May 10, 2009 7:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/05/we_can_all_get_they-ah_from_hee-ah.phpEditors' Note: Guest blogger Sue Hyde is a Massachusetts resident and longtime staffer at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
The first coins struck in the Colonies were th...Some folk say, "You can't get they-ah from hee-ah." But in the great region of New England, we know different and better. As the New Hampshire marriage reform bill rests on the desk of Gov. John Lynch and as the ink dries on the Maine marriage reform bill just signed by Gov. John Baldacci, no informed New Englander awoke in surprise and shock at the region's rapid expansion of marriage equality. Rather, we awoke in joy and satisfaction that our states continue a long tradition of bending the arc of history toward justice.
The people of the six New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island serve as the craftspeople of the art of our democracy: heating the metals of social change to malleability and then smiting them into the shape of social justice. The crafts, tools and skills of the New England blacksmiths of justice are wielded with fierceness of determination and vision of a people longing to be free and equal partners in civic life.
Some examples from the forge
