2008-10-27 11:39 | Event: Write to Marry Day
Vote all the way down the ballot! No on Prop 8!
Here is the Wikipedia article on California's Proposition 8. The proposition is seeking to add this to the California Constitution: "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
Being liberal-minded myself, it is no surprise that I am firmly against this bigoted proposition. I am against restricting marriage to a man and a woman, I am against nullifying existing marriages, and I am way against giving even a millimeter of ground to people who are in fact that insecure about their marriages.
Two wonderful things:
- Google's position is vote no on Prop. 8.
- Apple not only says no to Prop. 8, they have donated $100,000 to the No On 8 campaign.
Donate to No On Prop 8 here.
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One Response to “Event: Write to Marry Day”
I sincerely hope PROP 8 fails miserably.
BUT – if it DOES passes, is everyone prepared to spend another ba-zillion dollars on PR and possibly wait 20-30 years to "win" equality in CA?
AND – if it does NOT pass, which state will we focus on next so we can spend another ba-zillion dollars to purchase civil rights?
I know I am virtually alone here (except for Charles Merrill and his partner), but I think all of you are insane. Truly crazy….one step away from writing-on-the-wall-with-your-feces crazy.
Because if ALL of us truly believed we WERE equal, we would not be so patient as tax-payers and U.S. citizens. We'd simply KNOW we ARE equal, and refuse to pay into a system that not only denies our familes civil marriage but doesn't even acknowledge our existence (wait for the 2010 census).
I'm 43, and I will NOT wait until I'm 73 for fair and equal treatment. It's OK for the country at large to be ignorant, bigoted, mid-guided, and mid-informed. But that's not my fault. So until people GROW UP and show my family the same "civil" respect heterosexually-identified families are given, I owe this country and the IRS nothing.
How many times do I need to say this?
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AIN'T GWANNA HAPPEN!