No on Prop 8 is very important to me. Not just because I have friends, neighbors and co-workers that are gay, but because it was only 40 years ago that my own husband and I couldn't be married (Loving v. Virginia.).
You may not agree with interracial marriage, but you wouldn't try to change a law to stop it would you? I'm pretty sure that if banning interracial marriage was put to vote in some parts of the south, my marriage would be null and void.
The "Yes on Prop 8" commercials are outright lies and if you are on the fence about this issue, please consider this - I can tell you that as a former teacher marriage is NOT part of the curriculum and is never taught in schools. Is interracial marriage part of the curriculum? Heck no, so why would any type of marriage be taught about. It's NOT.
Nothing will happen to your marriage or your family if you vote No on Prop 8 - but if you vote "Yes on Prop 8" millions of people will be discriminated against - and that's bigotry.
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I can't wait to vote NO on Prop 8 on Tuesday!
ya know...I try to explain this my "church friends"...they just don't get it. I get it!!! I wasn't allowed to be married to my husband cuz he's a differnt color than I am...who am I to tell someone else that they can't be married??!!! it's not gay people/gay marriage that are "ruining the american family"...its parents who abandon their kids, who beat their kids, who neglect their kids...parents who run out on their kids. THEY are the ones "ruining the american family!"
Get a grip people!!
who is anyone to tell anyone else they can't be married, What kind of world do we really live in - Its just annoying. If I were in Cali I would vote No on Prop 8, We lived in Nj when they made gay marriage legal, and seriously it wasn't such a big deal, It was just suddenly legal in the eyes of the state and it didn't bother anyone and no one was protesting against it. I agree with Beth above marriages and types of marriages are not affecting anyone else, and when people say - Oh but the children - the children would be fine if they had real parents - because America has a parenting problem - and maybe they should make people get a lisc. for that! I have a lot of gay friends and they would make better parents and provide better families then some of the parents that I know.
I could go on forever...
Mary - love this post... and also I am in the same boat - I have been working on a similar post based on this website...
http://www.lovingday.org/map.htm
I cannot wait to vote my support for people legally loving and living with each other...
Great, GReat, GREAT post!!!! Thank you!
Good luck with Prop 8.. hopefully everyone uses their smarts that day.
Its sad to think of how many small minded people there are in the world yet today.
lets hope all the intelligent people who want to make a difference in the world get out and vote for the rights of people.
Darlin' it's more than bigotry, it's outright hatred and fear all wrapped up into one shitastic package.
And it's an attempt to modify the constitution.
You don't want to vote for prop 8, you'll be deeply ashamed when you have to explain that to your grandchildren.
I have yet to hear anyone explain how gay marriage will cause the decline of the American family, or how it is an affront to the sanctity of marriage in general. Not for nothin, but straight couples screwed the pooch on the whole sanctity of marriage thing long before same sex couples began asking for the same rights afforded everyone else. As for mixed marriages, here in the heartland, it still evokes a sharp intake of breath and much tsk tsking, and in the deep south as well, but we have always been slow on the uptake. Great post.
Hope the vote comes out ok. It's sad that there is so much bigotry in the world.
I found your blog from Zombie Mom. This issue is so close to my heart too (altough I'm straight- not that it matters). I agree with all the comments too!
Great post.
This one you might like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H3kxDFgmu8
I find it so hard to understand why anyone would oppose loving committed relationships between adults. Seriously. It makes me incredibly sad and discouraged. I really hope....
I would certainly vote "no" if I were a CA voter. When you wrote the part about "nothing will happen to you or your family..." it reminded me of what I thought was a great bumper sticker that I saw years ago. It read, "Against abortion? Don't have one." I realize that abortion is not the same kind of an issue as marriage is, but the idea about people living their lives without legislating how others live is the same.
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