19 November 2008
A reader sums it up nice and neat on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish:
The critical point that is put forward in every brief seeking Prop 8‘s invalidation is thatProp 8 stands for more than gay marriage: it stands for the premise that any minority group can suddenly be targeted by the majority for discrimination. It essentially eviscerates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution. This because a) the Supreme Court has held (in Perez, some 20 years before Loving) that marriage is a fundamental right and b) in the Marriage Cases, that homosexuals are a suspect class. Unless Prop 8 somehow by implication reversed either of those, Prop 8 means that any time we wanted to be mean to some minority group, we could.
Emphasis mine. This is about civil rights and equal protection. And while the courts have been asked to look into it, you can sign the petition to repeal it.
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5 November 2008
My heart bleeds drops of disillusioned anguish. I have largely seen the good in people or tried to on most occasions. But today I cannot see it. The day is grey even though the sun is shining. Where yesterday I saw genuinely good people everywhere with the best of intentions and the belief of being equal still defined the country that we live in, today I see only bigotry and fanatical fundamentalism and stupidity.
Congratulations President Obama. But today I’m going home to be with my sweetie, even if I may never get the chance to legally call him husband.
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24 October 2008
And that’s really what this is about. If proposition 8 passes in California, rights are taken away and marriage will an exclusive special privilege that only heterosexual couples can participate in. For the foreseeable future.
For a perspective on what’s at stake:
“If Prop. 8 doesn’t pass,” says Jon Davidson, legal director at Lambda Legal, a gay-rights legal group deeply involved in the same-sex-marriage wars, “the voters will be saying they’re fine with gay marriage. Our opponents will no longer be able to blame so-called rogue jurists. It will be the people who have spoken.”
Read more on this at LA Weekly.
If you live in California, please vote no on Proposition 8.
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