True Love: 84- and 87-Year-Old Lesbians Marry

Here is an article about a happy, monogamous, lesbian couple who have been together for 55 years. That's right, 55 frickin' years! Why--that's longer than John McCain's been in the planet, which is a really long time.

And this couple, now age 84 and 87, are going to be legally wed today.

Conservatives are crying and ringing their hands (and filing petitions with the supreme court) over the legal same-sex marriages in California, but Lyon and Martin are living proof that the whiners' arguments are as empty as their minds are closed. Here is a couple who've been dedicated to each other and active in the community. They've owned and maintained a home together. And long after so many heterosexual couples are on their second or third marriages, Lyon and Martin are still together.

It makes me very happy on this, the occasion of my own 24th wedding anniversary to my wife, to welcome Lyon and Martin and other same-sex couples to legal, equal-under-the-law, marriage. Congratulations and best of luck for the future!