Want a happy ending

The date is set, the venue booked and the wedding party on board. We’ve spent seven years of our lives growing together, supporting each other and making one another better people. Now, we’re finally getting married.

There’s just one thing in the way: Referendum 74.

My life is now a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book and the voters of Washington are the readers. The voters now decide the outcome of my story.

Both paths lead to marriage equality, but they’re very different. The first path is sunny and warm, short and uncomplicated. The second path is dark and twisted, with villains all along the way. Villains in the form of talk radio hosts, owners of fast-food chains and ex-governors.

Hundreds of millions of dollars that could be better donated to homeless shelters or to help children living in poverty will be wasted by these villains as they fight against the natural evolution of society, clinging to exhausted and irrelevant belief structures that have no place in government.

Marriage equality will happen. It’s only a matter of when, and how many resources are wasted in the unnecessary fight.

I’m getting married, but you get to choose which road we take.

Corey Fortune

Spokane