Typically, I avoid politics. I feel that there is never really anything I can accomplish by getting involved, because I feel that our elected officials will always just do whatever they want regardless of how the people feel. I feel hopeless and powerless when I am aware of something that needs to change because I believe that my voice is not heard.
However. I do have a voice in my own small circle of friends. I can speak out with my own opinion in matters that are important to me.
Please read these comments by my mother. And these by my friend. And these by my brother. They are three people that I admire most in my life and they explain how I feel eloquently. I am sorry for the hatred and fear that people in my church express regarding this issue. I am sorry for the civil rights that are taken away without any thought about the real human beings this affects. This is truly something that will end up affecting all of us.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the links. I love fMh. If you don't already read them regularly, check them out.
Well, the issue is certainly not going away, even though the vote(s) is over. I like fMh too--it's one of the few websites where I read the comments as well as the original posts.
I too was very sad to see Prop 8 pass. I don't think whom one chooses to love and marry should be subject to referrendum.
Until the supreme court through out laws banning interracial marriage (in the best named court case ever, Loving v. Virginia) in 1967, Jill and I wouldn't have been able to get married. Now, the thought of such a ban seems plain ridiculous. I think the court will throw out prop 8, as they did with a similar ban recently. And I think in 40 years we'll think not letting consenting adults marry who they wish, man or woman, is just as anacrhonistic as the old bans on interracial marriage.
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