Reply #36: Thanks Renee, and welcome to DU

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And I say this as a woman in a seven year same-sex marriage -- that has rights only through the intercession of a good attorney and California's domestic partnership laws.

The DP is invalid everywhere else in the U.S. And our legal paperwork is in dubious status in roughly 10 states now, perhaps more.

I honestly can't call myself an American anymore -- because there's too much of this country where I dare not travel, much less actually have the choice to live there.