many of you, my regular readers, will remember my post on February 20th regarding my great concern and sadness related to Senator Barbara Boxer's choice of words on same-sex marriage

well, i am pleased to report that she has changed her stance and is back in support of full gay equality. below is her statement, released this week:

"I support full equality for all couples, regardless of the gender of the individuals. I believe that both different sex and same-sex couples should have the same rights, protections, and benefits as well as the same responsibilities under state and federal law. I understand that current California law does not provide the full equality I initially thought it did."-- Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-California)

wonderful, supportive language, and i take personal pride in that i helped get her to say this. there were many involved in getting her to restate her position, many more powerful and vocal than i, but i did have my own conversations with her office over the last month, many in-depth conversations explaining the hurt and anger she had caused with her initial statements, and i feel great that in the end she came around and is now saying the right things. so, in relation to my post a month ago about taking the boxer button of my bag, well it's back on now. and we gotta work harder than ever to re-elect her this november to the u.s. senate! she is definitely on our side. :-)