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No on Prop H8
Oct. 30th, 2008 08:47 amJust a few more words on why you should be voting no on Prop 8 if you live in California:
via Another Green World
we have a few more details to iron out before we finally become the best version of what we always should have been--the country of inclusion, the country that draws strength from our difference as long as we all accept those things that those men wrote 233 years ago that bind us together. we are here. the time is now. our gay brothers and sisters need us to extend that franchise, to embrace them with both arms, and they need us to do so today and tomorrow and every day until november 5th, when that embrace can turn into the most joyful hug imaginable.
my sister is gay, and she has no interest in getting married, despite being in a long term relationship with a wonderful woman, and despite living in massachusetts where she to marry is her right. that is her choice, and she can make it freely. what could possibly be more beautiful than that? let's give our gay friends, gay colleagues, gay relatives and fuck it, while we're up, our gay enemies that exact same right: the right to say "I do", or, for that matter, "I don't" just like those of us who are straight get to do. let's extend that franchise until we can't extend it anymore, and then let's go about making the idea of america as perfect as we possibly can. all of those americans who are gay are just as american as those who aren't, and they cannot and must not face the kind of discrimination that has been their lot for far too long. i look forward to those hugs on november 5th--i think i will head down to santa monica blvd. and san vicente and throw a few around myself.
And one more thing from me, can you imagine the kind of world we'd live in if the religious zealots who are mobilized in droves to support this constitutional amendment actually turned all that energy and rabid enthusiasm to something good? Imagine, just for a minute, that they used it instead to help the poor or to fight for universal health care or any other number of great works. You know, the sorts of things their supposed messiah was kind of big on.
I'd love to think that world was possible, one where people were motivated by empathy and compassion rather than hate and fear, wouldn't you?
via Another Green World
we have a few more details to iron out before we finally become the best version of what we always should have been--the country of inclusion, the country that draws strength from our difference as long as we all accept those things that those men wrote 233 years ago that bind us together. we are here. the time is now. our gay brothers and sisters need us to extend that franchise, to embrace them with both arms, and they need us to do so today and tomorrow and every day until november 5th, when that embrace can turn into the most joyful hug imaginable.
my sister is gay, and she has no interest in getting married, despite being in a long term relationship with a wonderful woman, and despite living in massachusetts where she to marry is her right. that is her choice, and she can make it freely. what could possibly be more beautiful than that? let's give our gay friends, gay colleagues, gay relatives and fuck it, while we're up, our gay enemies that exact same right: the right to say "I do", or, for that matter, "I don't" just like those of us who are straight get to do. let's extend that franchise until we can't extend it anymore, and then let's go about making the idea of america as perfect as we possibly can. all of those americans who are gay are just as american as those who aren't, and they cannot and must not face the kind of discrimination that has been their lot for far too long. i look forward to those hugs on november 5th--i think i will head down to santa monica blvd. and san vicente and throw a few around myself.
And one more thing from me, can you imagine the kind of world we'd live in if the religious zealots who are mobilized in droves to support this constitutional amendment actually turned all that energy and rabid enthusiasm to something good? Imagine, just for a minute, that they used it instead to help the poor or to fight for universal health care or any other number of great works. You know, the sorts of things their supposed messiah was kind of big on.
I'd love to think that world was possible, one where people were motivated by empathy and compassion rather than hate and fear, wouldn't you?
