The Blanchards are a gay couple, married in Iowa last year, who live in Lafourche. They, along with two other gay couples, have sued the state claiming Louisiana’s refusal to recognize their marriage violates their constitutional freedoms.I wish the Blanchards and the other couples in Louisiana success in their litigation to have their marriages recognized. In other states which do not allow same sex marriages, courts have ruled in favor of recognition. If the litigation is successful, you'll hear hootin' and hollerin' from folks who disagree with the ruling, but recognition of the marriages is inevitable, and, if not now, then it will come, probably sooner, rather than later. Seventeen states allow same sex marriages, and the number will surely grow.
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Driving through their Raceland subdivision past the single story, cookie cutter red brick homes, the Blanchards’ home would be difficult to distinguish from those of most bayou families.
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Courtney argued that those still resisting will be remembered in the same light as those who resisted civil rights for blacks. She added the couple feel nothing but love from their neighbors and others.
“We are accepted around here,” Courtney said. “My grandma knows, and she understands it. I would never imagine that kind of stuff.”
The reporter paints a sympathetic picture of the Blanchard family, portraying them as "normal" and unthreatening, which I do appreciate, but I was amused at the description of their house as just like any other house in the neighborhood. You'd never know from passing by that a family with a young child with two mommies lived there. What are the expectations about the homes of lesbian and gay couples? I have no idea. Norman Bates' house in Psycho?
