The Right to Marry
Gabriel over at Modern Fabulousity has written an eloquent and beautiful post about same-sex marriage, and voting No on Prop 8 (even though he’s a New Yorker for whom it’s not even applicable). I urge you to click on the linkiness under “eloquent and beautiful” in the previous sentence at your earliest convenience. In the meantime, here’s a passage from what he wrote:
You can decide for yourself whether my marriage has any meaning for you or not, and how you feel about it morally…that’s your right, as an American. . . . You can imagine that my love isn’t the same as yours, that my faith is different from yours, that the houses of religion should bolt the door when they see me coming. You can judge me and my husband, and you can hate us the way homosexuals have been hated for a thousand years. (For that’s all this debate is about, in the end…how much you hate us.) [. . .]
But what you CANNOT continue to do is deny the LEGAL protections that every American deserves. Especially if you believe that America should be the land of the free, that all men are created equal, that we all have a right (protected in the Constitution) to pursue happiness. You want to deny me morally, fine. You cannot deny me legally any more. Period.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:00 am
And today is Write to Marry Day!
http://www.mombian.com/2008/10/24/join-us-for-write-to-marry-day/