Commentary on (the disgusting and hateful) Prop 8

[teekachu]

foxymoonheart put this on her journal and it nearly moved me to tears. I'm sharing it with you, too, as well as what she wrote.

I'm sure many have seen this already, but I really feel this video needs to spread, in hope of opening hearts and opening minds.

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(For those who don't know, Prop 8 was a California proposition to ban the rights of same sex couples

Comments

[emiofbrie]

I posted it to my LJ too, though as an attempt to weed out anyone on my friends list who feel that I and other gays and lesbians should be second-class citizens.

I think I may have lost one LJ friend over it, but I'm not sure. She posted something to her LJ that *may* be a response to my post, but is just obtuse enough to leave me wondering.

[teekachu]

Bleh...

Slowly, people will evolve in their thinking... at least, I hope. There's no room in my life for people that so willingly would prevent someone else from being happy, just because they don't agree with them.

[ken_redtail]

I just posted this in my own personal journal too. I think this sort of thing is what people need to hear. A third of the country already bans same-sex marriage, but it took California to shock us into rational thought.

This world needs love more than anything right now, in any of its forms, and I think we need to work on promoting it and not holding it back, even if it's something we don't necessarily agree with.

[emiofbrie]

Sadly, more than a third, in fact more than half... 30 of 50 states ban gay marriage by state constitution.

[ken_redtail]

You're right. I checked out the data.

Twenty-six states have constitutional amendments explicitly barring the recognition of same-sex marriage, confining civil marriage to a legal union between a man and a woman. Forty-three states have statutes restricting marriage to two persons of the opposite sex, including some of those that have created legal recognition for same-sex unions under a name other than "marriage." A small number of states ban any legal recognition of same-sex unions that would be equivalent to civil marriage

[jecook]

Arizona just passed one that turned the existing state law into an amendment.

While I do like the state I live in, it's things like this that make me want to leave it.

[gas_mask_dragon]

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Theres not much else I can say that needs to be said.

[rmoorcat]

and how much money did the Mormons pour into this? and they are tax exempt.

[eski]

Wow... That was very moving, thank you so much for sharing. I can't say anything other than what he said. <3