My Facebook status post today: "So let me get this, er, straight: Marriage in California is ONLY between a man and a woman and 36,000 gays who got grandfathered in? WTF? Explain THAT to your children in your schools."
Me, Carmine and DoloresToday the California Supreme Court said that some people are not as equal as others under the eyes of the law in California. As a native Californian and as a US citizen I find it so sad and so maddening. I had errands to do today and a friend coming to town tomorrow to get ready for and the gym and some work stuff, but I dropped it all to march and say "NO."
Today I was proud to be a New Yorker.
We gathered at Sheridan Square and marched to Union Square straight down the main corridor of 14th Street and it felt good. I had to march. I had to march off my anger. I had to march to protest this terrible decision and stand up against inequality. Where does it stop? Will it happen in New York too?
My feeling is that we all have to be equal under the eyes of the law or it just doesn't work.
If some care about the so-called "sanctity" of an institution with a 50% failure rate so much because "marriage is between a man and a woman to raise children because children need to be raised by both a man and a woman" then here goes folks:
• No divorce. Ever. Under no circumstances. Work it out for the kids.
• If a man and a woman get married and do not have kids for whatever reason then the marriage must be dissolved.
• All interracial marriages must be voted on by the people to allow for maximum comfort for all.
• If one of the spouses dies and the child is thus being raised in a household without the loving influence of one of the genders then the surviving spouse must marry an opposite-gender partner within 3 months or give up custody of the children to a dual-opposite gender marriage.
How do you like them apples? Pretty effin' ridiculous, right? Well the government (and the people) need to stay out the bedroom of all. Including Mel Gibson and his pregnant girlfriend who must wait to marry him because he is not even flippin' divorced. How can devout Catholic Mel get married again anyway? Oops, I am off topic...
It is simple. Equal rights FOR ALL CITIZENS. Period. And on a Federal level as well where it really counts.
And where is the President on all this? Not now because there are bigger fish to fry? Well you fry those fish with YOUR spouse from another country getting deported.
And what about DOMA and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? People who have given service to this country are still being fired! This is insane. Yet the President does nothing.
We ALL have to march. I don't care if you "don't approve" of gays. If Lithuanian-Americans in Idaho were being denied the right to get library cards I would march.
It effects us all.
2 comments:
Well, I was devastated. A letter to the editor of the SF Chronicle today said that it takes a 2/3 vote to pass our CA state budget but a simple majority of the masses to strip individual citizens of their rights. Wow. The dirty, sad truth is the ruling is not about protecting marriage, it's saying that gay folk are freaks. The court agreed that institutionalizing a "leper" style bell around 10% of the population's necks is just fine with them. They sanctioned that something is inherently WRONG with gay people...otherwise, why treat them differently. Only minors are treated differently. I guess the court is saying gay people are like children who don't know what they want. I cannot believe that they embraced the hate and lacked leadership and courage. After all these years of learning that there is no greater truth than equality under the law. Check out and support the Moveon.org ad - http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/1million
You have found your calling! A voice to be reckoned with! Politics needs people like you! Loud, proud and intelligent!!
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