"It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married." -U.S. President Barack Obama, May 9th, 2012

Today, the first sitting president in the history of our country came out in support of marriage equality. Today feels momentous and magical and full of hope. Will this change everything? Perhaps not in a big immediate way. Equal marriage is not going to be legalized across the country tomorrow. But things are changing, and they are changing with greater and greater momentum. I am so proud of President Obama, and I am proud of Vice President Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan for also stating their support this week.

Lindi and I were talking about this and she said, I just thought: It's totally bizarre that people can vote on the validity of our marriage. Its so bizarre that anyone cares who I love and want to spend my life with. Most of the time our life is pretty mundane. We shop for groceries. We adopt kittens from the shelter. We celebrate birthdays and holidays with our families. Most of the time I forget that I'm married to a woman, because it doesn't feel any different. I married my best friend. I married the love of my life. How is that so outrageous?

And that's just it. It is so incomprehensible to me that people care SO much about making it illegal for other people- people they've never met, and some they have!- to be together. It just blows my mind. We live such a quiet, normal, joyful life. We're just people, in love with each other, and our gender shouldn't have anything to do with it.

Things are changing. I have so much hope. I feel so lucky to be alive right now, watching this unfold.