Annnnnnnnd THIS is why I’m moving to San Francisco! If this radical change can occur on a state level, just imagine the possibilities for a well organized local community. I know 61% of the state had voted against this sort of thing, but those judges came from somewhere. We don’t need to mobilize whole states, just whole neighborhoods.
After my abuse at the hands of Fair Wisconsin (something I will write about soon), this issue is personal. I won’t trivialize the importance of this victory by analyzing it more. I’ll just say this:
Fuck yeah, California [judges]. Fuck yeah.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
That graphic! I swear there were people drinking each time it was mentioned in the confirmation hearings for (Sc)Alito. Schumer tried, I guess.
My fear, as I’ve said, is that this will really rally the bigots even more and that they will mobilize even more- will we?
By the way, nice to get to know you and your blog, Jack. Very interesting comments as well. Looking forward to more of your thoughts.
Thanks,
Lynn
May 17th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Thanks for reading! I’ve been checking yours out as well.
With “marriage defense” amendments passed in 30 or so states, I’d say the bigots are already fairly mobilized. What kills me is their god-awful arguments and appeals to emotions. I can’t believe the uncritical mass of homophobes doesn’t see through their plainly manipulative language that revolves around buzzwords like “tradition.” Or, as the FRC clarified in that Guardian article:
“Four judges discarded the votes of 4,618,673 Californians who approved the state’s Defense of Marriage act. Voters understand that children should not be deprived of a mother or a father.”
It’s true, children should not be deprived of a mother or a father. Incidentally, that has nothing to do with gay marriage. If the FRC has a problem with gay parents, they should go after adoption laws. And if they have a problem with broken homes, well then they should get their asses into the communities and start walking the walk, because hetero broken homes greatly outnumber gay parents.
Bah, I despise these people.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
You know, they HAVE gotten into adoption.
Here’s one way: many adoption services and children’s services are contracted out to private nonprofits and some are faith-based. These organizations then get PUBLIC money to provide services, but there are cases where they are not neutral.
Near me, they provide family and custody counseling. I am not saying they cannot provide good services, but should such services, paid for by the taxpayers, be neutral???
And the tradition thing- well, there are two different things. Marriage as a sacrament and marriage as a legal state. I would never say that we should tell a Church what to do, but the public realm should be neutral. It was traditional to marry for property, too! People forget their “traditions”.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Yeah. “Time makes more converts than reason.”
July 20th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I feel the need to mention that I am Canadian and for the most part America and the idea of america and it’s whole concept of being scares the crap out of me, but examples like this have given me hope (it’s small, but it’s there), that my friends won’t be stolen out of their beds at night and stoned to death when america invades us for our oil. Also all the crap they spew about tradition is nonsense, traditionally i’d be sold off to the highest bidder, i mean husband and then forced into sexual sesrvitude. People don’t like to think of tradition as temporary, which it is, the fact that it’s something that changes over times plays with their fears surrounding life and death and the traditionally temporary nature of it.