Legal uncertainty

 Roe V Wade undone. A 300+ page Supreme court document undies fifty years of precedent. In a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas asks the courts to revisit Lawrence v. Texas, and Obergefell v. Hodges. That's sodomy laws and marriage equality respectively. A dog whistle is a dog whistle and the future looks a lot more overcast by the moment.

In three days I have a divorce hearing. The marriage itself was without fanfare. It was the result of Obergefell's ripples. We had already been in a domestic partnership, and that was no longer going to be recognized by my employer. So to save money and retain health benefits we quietly decided to wed. The words "we practically are anyway" was the answer of the moment. 

I don't mourne the ending of that union. I did all the mourning in the last 18 months before it ended. I walked out the door and into my own apartment over four years ago, and that was the close of that chapter in all ways but the legal one. 

But there's that sense of twisted irony, that I'm about to sever that institution as the shadow of it's legal acceptance being questiones looms in the future.

Handler says he intends to mary me one day. His mother questioned if I would get married again. She wants me to Mary her son. Part of me would love nothing more. The question is though, why? 

Why embrace the institution of marriage, when it could be wiped out with a penstroke from the court? Why embrace the institution of marriage with a partner who is poly, in which case the legal contract forever cements one of their partners as legally more recognized than the other? Why do I want this?