Lydia believes the government has no business licensing love. Marriage is a commitment between consenting adults and in a free country the state's role ends at enforcing the agreements people choose to make. Until that day comes, Lydia will fiercely defend equal treatment under the law as it exists: she will oppose any effort to make gay marriage illegal, and she will fight to ensure that no federal benefit or recognition ever depends on a bureaucrat's judgement about anyone's intimacy, a doctrine that has no place in law and discriminates against asexual individuals and non-sexual partnerships.