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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • This part is a slippery slope that I don’t have a pithy hot take for. I wish I did.

    I mean, do I really want to wait from 1776 or 1791 until 2013¹ for the state to mandate that all marriage license-issuing court clerks be required to issue marriage licenses to any unmarried pair of adults, even if the pair was assigned the same gender at birth?

    Lots of Americans still resent that those clerks are funded by their tax dollars.


    1. marriage between those without matching birth-certificate sex was the only legal marriage in the United States during this period