So Proposition Eight Passed
posted in Frenzied Daddy |I’m ashamed for “my friends” in California- Proposition eight passing saddens me. I have real friends (as opposed to “my friends” friends) in California (Hi Unka C and Unka N!) who are married and who live in San Francisco.
I want to encourage you, my readers, and my friends, and anyone else who happens to think through this. Even during the push for civil rights for women, civil rights for non-whites, there was a process of two steps forward, one step back. It’s saddening, it’s maddening, but it’s not really surprising when gay marriage is voted down. Keep your faith, remember that we’re in this together.
An interesting anonymous comment on Stop All Monsters, where the author promotes a boycott of Mormon businesses starting with the Marriot hotel chain.
The Prop 8 struggle is not a gay/straight issue, it is an equality issue. It is Brown v Board of Education. Seperate but equal. It is akin to the rich tradition we had of not allowing women to vote in this country. The same arguements [sic] being used to support Prop 8 can find chorus with the voices that denied rights to women or people of color. As with those historic struggles we must understand that this issue is not about the people who’s lives it may affect most but instead about our constitutional identity which we must continue to strive toward.
I think that it’s important to remember that you, Unka C and you, Unka N, weren’t voted against specificially. It’s not really about you, and this author says it isn’t really about straight or gay. It’s about equality across the board. It really shouldn’t matter to the country, to the state– to the government, who wants to get married. That’s between two people who love each other and promise to stand by each other for the rest of their lives. Gay marriage is just a step in this journey of equality before the Constitution (federal or state).
I don’t really think this post is very coherent. I’m trying to show why it doesn’t surprise me but does sadden me, and I’m trying to encourage you and encourage my friends. I believe we’ll “get there eventually” but I hope we get there sooner rather than later.
