Meet Mr. Spooner, an 86-year-old combat veteran who testified earlier this year in a public hearing in Maine, on a marriage equality bill. I don’t think they make “lifetime Republicans” in Texas like this one.
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Written by Harold Cook, Letters From Texas is a humorous look at politics and current events, as seen through the eyes of a progressive Texan in a bad mood.
Awesome. Made me cry.
Damn you, Harold. I’m at work. THERE IS NO CRYING AT WORK.
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beautiful. just. beautiful.
and i agree with you, harold,
if there are any lifetime republicans
like that down here their voices are
either unspoken or unheard…or both.
and not just a few lifetime dems are
‘staying out of it’ as well.
either way, it is a deafening
and cowardly silence.
my partner & i decided to go to canada
5 years ago, for the sake of love and
turning 60…after a civil ceremony
outside we were blessed by the rector
inside an anglican church. a congregation
of strangers came to support us. then he
brought out the beautiful old anglican
registry for us to sign our names
under the names of all the other
couples married in the parish.
it was a deep moment to experience
equality in the church of our faith,
in another country, and then to come
home to the land of 5 generations of
my family…the hill country of home,
where equality is a private matter.
i didn’t intend to take up so much space
but you brought it up. and i am grateful
that you did, my friend. thanks.
Oh man….made me cry too!
I guess even more so because my own father served in Patton’s 3rd Army. I miss that generation.