I's married now!!!

Sort of. Effective January 1st, 2007 our domestic partnership gave us all of the same legal rights as a married couple on the state level. Every single one, from what I understand. It is still called Domestic Partnership but the fact that we are given every single same right is a huge step.
Originally Michelle and I registered so that we could put Michelle on my insurance at work. Romantic, don't you think? *grin*
I have made no secret about the fact that I do not want to get married. I don't believe that a piece of paper is what makes a relationship legitimate and I think society has made a mockery of marriage. Britney Spears can have a shotgun wedding in Vegas with a man she doesn't love but two people of the same sex can not do the same simply because they are not the opposite sex. Why on earth would I want to participate in something so shallow as marriage.
That said, now that I am legally "married", I'm okay with it. Probably because I didn't have to do anything and we didn't have to make a big deal about it. We just woke up on the 1st and were suddenly married. All you breeders should be so lucky. *snort*
So California is finally starting to catch up with some of the other states. MA laws allow gay couples to marry and to call it marriage. CT, VT and NJ now have Civil Unions. All the same rights as married couples with the exception of calling it marriage. HI has some law called "Reciprocal Beneficiary Relationships" which I think is sort of like domestic partnership with limited rights.
Canada recognizes same sex marriage and Mexico City recently passed laws recognizing same sex couples. Israel is starting to get on board as well. In Israel, they will recognize same sex marriages that were performed outside of their country. But there is some law that makes it illegal for them to perform the unions.
So feel free to send wedding gifts to us. :)