# Prescription II

Originally published: 2016-12-02
Canonical URL: /2016/Dec/prescription-ii/

that feel eighteen months post-_Obergefell_ when you realize you missed your chance to be pro-civil-unions-with-all-the-same-legal-privileges but anti-calling-it-_marriage_ while that position was still in the Overton window

(in keeping with the principle that it shouldn't be so exotic to want to protect people's freedom to do beautiful new things without necessarily thereby insisting on _redefining existing words_ that _already mean something else_)