Bans on marriage

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

The brilliant juliaserano said it best:

eliminating people's rights...

As of today, I refuse to acknowledge 52% of Californian's rights! I will do so randomly, at my choosing. I have deemed myself the ultimate arbiter of rights! After all, as a California voter, I have a God given right to decide who is entitled to "rights" and who is not.

Thus, by the powers vested in me as a California voter, I declare that:

1) Freedom of religion has been eliminated for all of the Mormons and Catholic who funded the "yes on 8" ads

2) Freedom of speech has been eliminated for anyone who voted for prop 8.

3) And if you fall into class "1" or class "2", then too bad, because I am eliminating your right to marry too. Ha!



I suppose in my own words I should add that I'm pissed as hell about all the states with anti-marriage amendments. The only silver lining to this is that young voters are more likely to support marriage equality. But this is still outrageous. I wonder if maybe the LGBT movement has played it too safe and too "nice"...we've spent the last 10-20 years telling the world that we're just like them and asking them to please tolerate us. Maybe we need to get angry and get more active, like maybe we need to protest outside of hospitals that forbid us to visit our partners (the hospital in Florida last year that forbade the partner of a dying woman to see her before she died comes to mind). Maybe we need to talk more about the hardships in our lives due to not being able to marry.

Comments

[carynsilver.livejournal.com]

I really, really hope the articles I read about Prop. 8 being declared unconstitutional work out. I am so angry about this... just as angry as I was when Texas passed something similar. :-( Though, it was expected to pass in Texas, as sadly conservative as this state can be.

Strangely enough, my sister and I were talking yesterday about how we should deny basic rights to everyone who voted yes on these amendments.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I do hope that it might be declared unconstitutional. I hear you on Texas. You know, having to fight for marriage state by state is a really exhausting strategy, and even in the few states where same-sex couples can get married, they don't enjoy most of the legal benefits of marriage which are federal (not state). It's definitely going to be a long struggle on this issue.