May 26, 2009
 | Breaking News on Prop 8By Grace Underfire |
The California Supreme Court upholds Proposition 8, but all marriages that took place before the election will stand.
Read the Los Angeles Times for the full article.
Day of Decision will still be holding rallies in cities across America. Please attend and stand in solidarity as other people have, once again, voted against our rights. Welcome to a lovely Tuesday where my rights were protected (sort of) and others were taken away. Victory and defeat… It’s a bittersweet day in California.
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May 27th, 2009 at 5:06 am
I protested today in Vancouver, Canada! There were 80-100 people in attendance.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I am so sad that this happened.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Ah well, there was a lot of criticism about how the anti-8 camp had chosen to strategically fight the pro-8 groups in terms of advertisements and their unwillingness to show actual gay and lesbian couples in those ads, with the intention of *not* pushing middle-ground/swing-voters away with an in-your-face campaign.
Of course, pragmatism of that nature aside, pretty much everyone else I knew personally felt that was a tremendous mistake, and actually putting human faces on the issue instead of making it some kind of nebulous “OMG they will teach WHAT in school now?!” argument would have been far better–after all, the whole point was about real people and real people’s rights and lives and dignity.
While I, personally, felt the whole issue came down to a continuation of the “separate but equal” civil-rights-inequity by saying civil unions are equal in all ways (but one, right?) to actual marriages…I also had to acknowledge that when it came down to this important vote, we just didn’t make it happen.
When it really did matter (at the time of voting, not later during the obligatory “appeal” phase) they fielded more bodies than we could. As Dave Chappelle would say “should have tried harder when it mattered, bitches.” :/ It’s a big state…we should have known there was a lot of work to be done to make the issue known on a personal level all over, and not just in the big cities.
That being said, at least there are some small victories in tolerance that came about during this same time…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31066626/
…LOL I find the above news story fantastic! ^^ He might be one of the worst people on earth, and he might have waited until after his term in the Bush administration was over to say it, but he said it. For all of Cheney’s moral shortcomings, and in spite of whatever dog-eared GOP rhetoric he still adheres to, he does indeed love and support his lesbian daughter.
Now if only Alan Keyes–who is arguably the moral polar opposite of Cheney but who fails miserably in life for disowning his lesbian daughter–would stop to think on this a bit…
EDIT: As a side note for all the Rens and Allys that think that only Guh-Yuhk-LAWL-I-amz-Dyke-I-Likes-thats-TOO-Uhur topics exist on this site, and critical thinking on meaningful topics isn’t appropriate, maybe you should just not bother to read and comment on every post that comes along?