Today is a wonderful day in California. Hundreds of couples finally got their permission to marry each other. It’s wonderful to see people who’ve been living together for 55 years can finally marry. Yes, it’s an extreme example. But if you’ve been to West Hollywood today, you have seen a lot of really happy people - and I assume the same will have been true all over California.
However, all is not well. A few people who make it their business telling others how to run their lives have proposed a ballot item for the November election. The goal is to make same-sex marriage unconstitutional, to revoke the privileges that just have been granted. I can’t even fathom why - same-sex marriage hurts nobody, and takes nobody’s rights away.
If you’re living in California, I ask you to fight for this piece of justice - it’s been a bleak 7 years for civil rights and equality. Let’s not lose yet another chance of being a more civil society.
Equality Now is running a campaign, if you’d like to volunteer or donate money(http://www.eqca.org/issuespac/donate). And even if you can’t do that, please show that you don’t begrudge other people their happiness and vote ‘NO’ to the hate amendment.
Has this quieted down since the judgement?
That’s what happened in Canada - I big ballyhoo immediately after, then lots of couples got married and the str8 world mostly forgot about it and went about their business.
Turns out (big surprise) it really wasn’t the end of the world after all
It has quieted down a bit - but the christian right is still pushing for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. (Sigh!)
So we need to quash that before we’ll finally have peace…
(There’s also a question to the legality of the ballot proposal. Technically, it might be a revision, not an amendment - which is not legal under the CA constitution. I’d prefer to win this one at the ballot box, though…)