We Need More Like This Guy

He's a High School senior. I sent him an email that included this:

I'm thrilled that young people like you are recognizing marriage equality for the civil rights issue it is. It's a matter that couldn't be more personal to me. I'm 53, and my life partner is 76. He became disabled a few years ago due to crippling lower back pain. Without me he'd be in a nursing home, miserably unhappy, and rapidly running through his insurance and savings. Instead I left the work force to be able to tend to him at home every single day. Yet after being together for thirty-three years society officially sees nothing of value in that.

Andrew Sullivan thinks this is the voice of the future, that the generation coming up just now has no patience with the homophobia that has been the norm for so long. At the gay rights march on Washington this last weekend -- which turned out much larger than expected -- news reports mentioned how many straight people were in the march, many of them couples with children. They said they were there because they were just fed up with the injustice.

Promising.