Tag Archives: glbt rights

Once again, Keith says what is in my heart so much better than I can

11 Nov

Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love

Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast. […]

What is this, to you? Nobody is asking you to embrace their expression of love. But don’t you, as human beings, have to embrace… that love? The world is barren enough.

It is stacked against love, and against hope, and against those very few and precious emotions that enable us to go forward. Your marriage only stands a 50-50 chance of lasting, no matter how much you feel and how hard you work.

And here are people overjoyed at the prospect of just that chance, and that work, just for the hope of having that feeling. With so much hate in the world, with so much meaningless division, and people pitted against people for no good reason, this is what your religion tells you to do? With your experience of life and this world and all its sadnesses, this is what your conscience tells you to do? […]

Go read the entire piece. It’s well worth your time. Or better yet, when you get to the page, click the link to launch the video, and listen to Keith directly. You won’t be sorry.

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Because I helped spread the myth…

10 Nov

I feel obliged to help undo it as well.

Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Prop. 8

[…] Black people are to blame for the passage of Proposition 8 here in California. It is an idea grounded in utter myth, a complete lack of knowledge about anything related to Black people’s presence in California, and just plain old scapegoating.

Hoepfully[sic], this diary will help put all that to rest, and we can get back to work trying to beat back the hateful results of Tuesday’s vote. […]

Consider this my mea culpa for the earlier post of this. I reacted to poorly researched “journalism”, and let my generally higher level of trust for foreign news sources carry too much weight. For that, I sincerely apologize. I also suggest reading this from Kathryn Kolbert, President, People For the American Way Foundation.

[…] Before we give Religious Right leaders more reasons to rejoice by deepening the divisions they have worked so hard to create between African Americans and the broader progressive community, let’s be clear about who is responsible for gay couples in California losing the right to get married, and let’s think strategically about a way forward that broadens and strengthens support for equality. […]

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I’m impressed by the argument

6 Nov

Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8, Should It Pass

The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution’s core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group – lesbian and gay Californians. Proposition 8 also improperly attempts to prevent the courts from exercising their essential constitutional role of protecting the equal protection rights of minorities. According to the California Constitution, such radical changes to the organizing principles of state government cannot be made by simple majority vote through the initiative process, but instead must, at a minimum, go through the state legislature first.

I’m afraid to be hopeful, though. Still, it’s an interesting and impressive argument. Click the link above to read the full press release, or see the writ petition here.

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California Prop 8 and bigotry

6 Nov

The very turnout that helped Obama carry California also seems to have helped Prop 8 pass. Polls indicate that African Americans overwhelmingly supported Prop 8. It’s one of life’s true ironies that those who were victims of bigotry would support the same against a different class of people.

Barack Obama may have helped California Proposition 8 gay marriage ban pass
Around 70 per cent of the African-American voters who overwhelmingly backed Mr Obama also approved Proposition 8, helping pass the controversial ballot measure despite a small majority of whites voting against the ban on same-sex unions. Hispanic and Asian voters were split on the issue. […]

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This is a real family…

3 Nov

Something for anyone that’s still undecided on CA Prop 8, FL Prop 2, or AZ Prop 102:

My Family Is Real by Les Addison

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Marriage “protection”

30 Oct

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow. Technically, I am not married, but I’m as close as you can be without that piece of paper.

Copy THIS sentence into your journal if you believe the fucking government should keep its lousy nose out of the estate of “holy Matrimony”, period, and leave it to the religious communities in which it rightfully belongs…

Feel free to take part, or not, as you choose.

via brigidsblest, nolawitch, et. al.

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Worth noting

15 Aug

Houston: Gay (and gay friendly) foster families sought

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15 Mar

A Rare Moment of Sense

It’s so rare, given the basic tenor of most arguments in politics today, but every once in a while someone says something so remarkable that’s it’s worth noting, without any comment at all.

Follow the link.

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Ohio Ban on GOP Adoption?

27 Feb

Ohio Democrat threatens to ban Republican adoption

Yes, it’s tongue in cheek, but it so makes the point. Email his office here to show support. Yeah, I know you don’t live in Ohio. But people like him need to know they don’t stand alone.

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As we all should

9 Nov

Today I apologize to the world for being a Texan. The only good news, is that apparently Travis County did not pass Prop. 2. As for the rest of my state, I am ashamed. Truly ashamed.

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