The SCOTUS ruling on same sex marriage is huge because people can finally marry yay! but there are so many other innumerable things. Today I went to get a new passport and they ask for the name of your spouse. Before the ruling, because we are both legally female and our marriage was only legal through loophole, I don’t know what would have happened or what the correct thing to do would have been: naming her could have been seen as fraud, and not naming her might have been, too. That was the weird place we were in before. Would they have rejected my application? Would the county clerk get twitchy? Maybe I would have had to go home and get our marriage certificate (proving we’re married) and her name change papers (proving she was the man I married).
What was nice today is that I just filled it out.
Someday someone will fill it out and not even think about it afterwards.
OK, that is just the best barometer of social change I can think of. It’s also not a complex question, is it? “Are you married?” yes. “To who?” to her. “Great. Thank you”