It is a sad day today. The Supreme Court Justices announced their ruling to uphold Proposition 8 as well as leaving several thousand gay marriages in tact.
So I am happy for everyone who found their true love and was able to marry but terribly sad for those who will find love in the future and will not be able to marry.
I think of my own relationship to a wonderful man. I had been searching for love like this for a long time. And now that I have found it when I didn’t think it could exist, I have started to ruminate on the possibility of getting married. And I am lucky because I am straight. I am lucky because I get to marry at any time I desire in any state I chose to the man I love.
But what if I wasn’t straight? What if my son grows up and realizes he is gay? So the will of the people is to withhold this right from homosexuals? It is none of my business or anyone’s elses to CHOOSE what rights certain people get to have.
And I don’t care if polygamy is legal either. If people want to get themselves into a mess having five or six wives, so be it if it means that the LGBT community can have the same rights as everyone else.
But no. We as a civillized society decided it would be best to dominate a minority by telling them what they can and can’t have.
So now let’s digress and go back to the civil rights movement–no marriages for black and white couples. Bye bye beautiful couple Heidi Klum and Seal. Let’s make sure Catholics can’t marry Jews–that is in the Bible too!
When all is said and done, the only solution is to put on the ballot another proposition that preserves the traditional definition of marriage–til death do us part!
What a sad day…
