I'm angry.
Nov. 8th, 2008 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rootofnewtI am deeply disturbed by homophobic referendums and amendments that have recently been passed. I am not surprised. I do not believe that we will have marriage equality without a Supreme Court decision. Remember Loving v Virginia? People in this country have great pride in living with their heads up their asses. Really, they do. That's why flashlights are so popular.
It took a SCOTUS ruling to strike down anti-miscegenation laws and it will take a SCOTUS ruling to strike down the laws which enforce discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender.
I feel that laws which restrict and define marriage in such narrow terms demean my marriage. I feel that laws which use a religious basis for a legal partnership have no place in this country.
I turned two Mormon boys away from my gate Wednesday night, explaining that I was outraged with the LDS involvement in California politics, The rookie looked confused, the elder elder seemed proud. Whatever.
I don't get folks who honestly believe that civil marriage should be a strictly heterosexual pairing.
A quote from Loving v Virginia:
Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival....
If we're not going to abolish marriage, we need to open it up. Get with it, people. If you have a problem with gay people, it's YOUR problem and I suggest you take a flying fuck at the moon.
It took a SCOTUS ruling to strike down anti-miscegenation laws and it will take a SCOTUS ruling to strike down the laws which enforce discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender.
I feel that laws which restrict and define marriage in such narrow terms demean my marriage. I feel that laws which use a religious basis for a legal partnership have no place in this country.
I turned two Mormon boys away from my gate Wednesday night, explaining that I was outraged with the LDS involvement in California politics, The rookie looked confused, the elder elder seemed proud. Whatever.
I don't get folks who honestly believe that civil marriage should be a strictly heterosexual pairing.
A quote from Loving v Virginia:
Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival....
If we're not going to abolish marriage, we need to open it up. Get with it, people. If you have a problem with gay people, it's YOUR problem and I suggest you take a flying fuck at the moon.
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Date: 2008-11-08 10:37 pm (UTC)On marriage rights...
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
My two female bisexual friends that moved to San Francisco, for work, last January are very upset by the vote on #8. They plan to get married. Living in SF the atmosphere is so pro alternate lifestyle that they did not think that it would not go there way.
They are talking about going to Canada for the ceremony now even if it will not be recognized in the US. They are not happy.
Thanks you for supporting people like them's right to marry who ever they want.
*hugs*