But it's also a uniquely divisive place. Politically, South Florida is largely liberal while the rest of the state falls staunchly in line with the Bible Belt. Where heads butt, people scream the loudest, and lately Florida's civil servants have proven just how bull headed and irrational they can be.
Digging their heels deep in the sand, Governor Rick Scott and State Attorney General Pam Bondi have proven their insistence to stand on the side of hateful discrimination despite a national inevitability. History books will record them as the bigots that they are.
But their lesser known followers will simply be painted as passive aggressive thorns in a nearly defunct movement to stymy progress by making it difficult to deal with the bureaucratic process.
Scott and Daniel Wall-Desousa were married in New York. Like most married couples, they used their marriage license to change their names on all their legal documents. But Florida, being #becauseflorida, decided it would "indefinitely" cancel their drivers licenses that were printed with their hyphenated last name.
Despite the fact that the federal government issued them new social security cards, the Florida DMV apparently pulled rank. Why? Well it doesn't really make sense. People change their names all the time. Whether the couple used their New York marriage license or their social security cards to acquire a new license from the Florida DMV, it in no way means that their marriage is recognized by the state of Florida.
The Florida DMV may just be bowing to a technicality. But the fact that their drivers licenses were issued in the first place means that some busy-body went through a lot of trouble to put up a red flag. In an effort to just be a horrible person, someone simply wanted to make their experience at the DMV, one that's rarely friendly or smooth, infuriatingly frustrating.
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