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Rich Rainbolt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rich-rainbolt/marriage-and-gender_b_988106.htmlI am a man who's been married to a man for three years, who I've loved for over a decade. We were allowed to get married in a brief moment in 2008 when California allowed same-sex marriage. About 18,000 of us got married in that moment, and I believe with the eventual fall of DOMA, same-sex marriage will be legal in the all of the United States of America.
As a society, I want us to move beyond the concept of same-sex marriage vs. heterosexual marriage and actually remove sex from marriage all together. (I'm told it happens eventually, anyway.) If we completely remove the check box of gender from a marriage license, what would happen? Why is it important for our government to know if Jill is a man or a woman, or if Jack was born a woman or a man? What if Jack or Jill don't identify as either/or?
