No on 8 (California Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the right of same sex couples to marry)

[trolleypup]

I was talking to a passenger a couple days ago, an out gay man, who had been walking a sign around...and he said his parent had been planning on voting for 8. It wasn't until he pointed out that a mere 12 years before he was born, they couldn't legally marry in California, until another activist California court decided on Brown vs. Lippold. My

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[xinef]

My parents got married in New Orleans in 1957. Mum was born in New Orleans. Dad is English and met Mum while on a Fulbright scholarship to Tulane. Because neither his passport nor his birth certificate stated his race, he had to get a notarized statement that he was white before he and Mum could get their marriage certificate. Note, Dad was blond (now white haired) and very fair complexion.

You bet I'm in favour of same-sex marriages, and I too use the same analogy.

[trolleypup]

*fixes defective HTML* to reflect what I meant for it to show. Thanks for the reminder.

[toraks]

Well, I'm married. I'm not sure if/when they had same race restrictions in PA, but I never even thought of it. Hopefully, it'll be the same some day for same sex couples. I hope so!

[trolleypup]

PA was just Blacks and Whites.

Other states had laws that if applied as written would prevent anyone with a mixed background from marrying ANYONE at all.

[toraks]

Fun, those laws. I'm just glad that they're history!

Especially nowadays -- it seems like lots of people my age and younger are not marrying within race. I think it's hilarious that two girls I went to school with (same year) have married Asian (I think Chinese, but am not sure) men and now have kids that look less white than mine does. It just boggles my mind somehow.

Mixed race children are the future. ;-p

Then again, I just met a fairly big-shot prof who's half-Indian and half-English. And he's not young. So mixed race children are the past too. Never mind.

[yayskittles]

You know, I've finally managed to convert my mom to being, if not pro-gay marriage, at least not against it... too late, because she voted for the Ohio amendment to ban it, but still.

And in all of the fights I've had with her about it, I NEVER ONCE thought to remind her that the law would have prohibited her from marrying my dad if she had tried it 20 years sooner.

Shame, that.

It just amazes me that, not only was that battle won so recently, but also that this one is still being fought. Just... completely amazes.

[trolleypup]

Yup.

[yayskittles]

Amazement turns to fury:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlItG4raicA

[trolleypup]

Well, the official campaign is using video without the permission of either the owner or the children who appear in it...