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"The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples."
Thank you, Judge Walker, for saying what Prop 8 supporters have been tap dancing around since the beginning. Homosexuals are not second class citizens, no matter how much you may dislike them, disagree with them, fear them, or just not understand them. Just because you have a slight majority (which still frightens me to no end), doesn't give you the right to oppress the minority. People can bitch about 'the people's will' being overturned by federally appointed judges (actually they can suck it as Kathy G would say), but they seem to be forgetting the ENTIRE PURPOSE of a judicial branch: to save us from ourselves. We may rule by the people in our wacky little country, but we have a constitution to protect us from our irrationality, our biases, and, frankly, to tell us when we're wrong. And boy, were you wrong, California.
Goodbye, Prop 8. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Thank you, Judge Walker, for saying what Prop 8 supporters have been tap dancing around since the beginning. Homosexuals are not second class citizens, no matter how much you may dislike them, disagree with them, fear them, or just not understand them. Just because you have a slight majority (which still frightens me to no end), doesn't give you the right to oppress the minority. People can bitch about 'the people's will' being overturned by federally appointed judges (actually they can suck it as Kathy G would say), but they seem to be forgetting the ENTIRE PURPOSE of a judicial branch: to save us from ourselves. We may rule by the people in our wacky little country, but we have a constitution to protect us from our irrationality, our biases, and, frankly, to tell us when we're wrong. And boy, were you wrong, California.
Goodbye, Prop 8. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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I was just watching CNN and the woman representing Prop 8 supporters went on and on about how children need both a mother and a father. Which leads me to ask myself what about those heterosexual married couples who are either infertile or do not want children. Do we deny them marriage too? Because marriage is probably all about procreation.
Uh... serious fail.
In May I made a crocheted baby blanket and sweater and hat set (Gazer and Splash also received them) for a lesbian couple expecting their first child. At the shower there were several lesbian couples with either their newborns or were pregnant. And you know what? It was an absolutely lovely celebration attended by both straight and lesbian women. I don't think any of us thought there was anything unusual in celebrating a new life this way.
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AUGH
(what gets me is that woman's argument appear to have made up the entire legal argument in court to support Prop 8 and....WTF?)
In less "AUGH" news, the Judge's ruling is a thing of legal prose beauty. You can tell he took the time to write that expecting it to go, well, places and trying to ensure there's a really tight case when SCOTUS gets their hands on it.
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The husband and I were hoping that this will be one of those things fifteen years from now that we all look back and say, "People used to think what about gay people?!? And they'd say that out loud?"
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Yes, absolutely. It should be like the "N" word which I heard tossed about fairly frequently when I was young. Naturally, my parents told me that it was a very inappropriate and low-class word, but I have lived to see the day when it's so verboten that most decent people wouldn't *dream* of saying it.
I'd yell 'cunt' at the top of my voice before I'd even whisper the N word. I can't conceive of applying that word to a person.
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Im sure that there are a lot of opposite-sex marriages out there that shouldnt have been allowed, but they were because in the eyes of the law its "right". I ask this....what exactly is it that dictates what is right and what is wrong in regards to human relationships?
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