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Monday, March 9 California Dreaming
I don’t pray I feel like praying that those who would stand in the way of basic human rights will not win their victory in the name of what they feel god wants.. I have never recuperated from the terrible irony that in the election that saw a waft of people willing to stand against racism to elect America’s first African American president, proposition 8, the ban on gay marriage in California was also voted in. Now there is a chance to do the right thing.. The cases have been heard, the candle’s lit for vigils, now we wait to see will The California Supreme Court, which last year declared the right of gays and lesbians to marry, say again that this is a constitutional right and re-peal what Sean Penn called, Shameful! Prop 8. I do not cast stones at shadows here, my own family, a family who loves me, went to the ballads and voted for Prop 8 in the name of what they felt the lord wanted. Needless to say conversation at the dinner table is a tad strained. To all those who fought hard to see the state’s constitution amended to declare that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid,” I say this..what if next time it is you? What if there comes a day when marriage between a Protestant and a Catholic is banned? Certainly some folks in Ireland might recall how laughable that is not. What if there comes a time when a Jew and a Moslem are not allowed to marry? Certainly in a few middle-eastern countries this is hardly a joke. What if there was a law against whites and blacks marrying? Oh right there was one, well into the latter part of the last century and we abolished the shameful law far too late but at least we did abolish it.
If you go back in history would you have joined in the civil rights marches across this country or would you just sit on the side lines? Saying…not me, not my problem.
The lord above created us all and he/she certainly would not have created 10% of humanity as gay, if we all were not meant to live and love and be happy and respected with equality.
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