CCL has a new sponsor! Her name is Natalie Rincon and she is family helping other family in Florida have something she didn’t get to have with her wife. The wedding ceremony of their dreams in front of their friends and family. When she first contacted me about advertising on CCL, she was incredibly [...]
Tag Archives: domestic partnership
How to Get a Domestic Partnership in Cali
I originally posted this on the Huffington Post. But thought it would be good to have in my archives for when people ask me about it. Before signing domestic partnership papers with my wife last year (yes, I call her my wife), we were told by several people who had walked that path before us [...]
The History Of Marriage
As a great follow up to Down with DOMA, WWG sent me this video. Al Franken Fact Checks Chuck Grassley: Marriage Has Evolved Over Time This morning, in a vote of 10 to 8, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and allow [...]
The Long Arm of DOMA
On the heels of the 3rd anniversary of Prop 8 passing, Remi came home today with some disheartening news from her work. We already knew that since she works for a federal agency, there was a good chance that they wouldn’t offer any domestic partner benefits. But over the last few years, we had heard [...]
Wedding Dilemma
You all brought up so many good points about the type of wedding we’re going to have. Is it sacrificing our individuality for tradition? Is giving into pressure to prove something really just selling out? Is it even worth it to spend all that money just to prove to our straights, that our marriage is [...]
No WiFi in the Woods
I am so sorry that I haven’t written anything this week! But our little engagement honeymoon was high in the mountains, in a little cabin nestled in the woods and there wasn’t any wifi there! Imagine that! We thought we couldn’t live without the internet but we did just fine. Well anyways, a dear friend [...]
I hear bells ……
We had spent the evening at my best buddies house, Lana for a few hours joking around. Around ten o’clock we figured we better get going because we still had to pick up some milk on the way home. Lana lives on a cliff overlooking the ocean and we were parked on that cliff. As [...]