I didn't expect for the oral arguments before the California Supreme Court over Proposition 8 to effect me emotionally. The Other Half and I did get married in Palm Springs last June, but we've been together for 11 years, and consider ourselves "married" anyway. And our home state of Nevada (and birth states for that matter) do not recognize our California marriage.
Still, I got a minor case of butterflies, hearing about the arguments on the news. Here we had the voters initially, and now a court deciding if we ought to be allowed to be married. Despite the fact that we already are. If you are engaged (or would like to be), imagine if voters took that right away. If you are married, imagine if a court annulled it, against your wishes.
So, for all of the "get over it" messages littering the internet, and comments that say "the people have spoken!" I say, the people had no right. And if they did have the right, they'd have the right to do it to ANYBODY. Be warned interracial or interfaith marrieds out there.
Ken Starr, the infamous "Monicagate" lawyer, thinks it's perfectly OK for the masses to vote on and decide other people's rights. So do, it would seem, the supporters of Proposition 8. I say, such an attitude is fundamentally un-American. And I'd love for somebody to tell me how it is not. Minority rights should never be decided by the tyranny of the majority. This thing should have never been up for a vote in the first place.
[Excerpt]
Arguing for Prop. 8, Ken Starr says any right can be taken
California's battle over same-sex marriage went before the state's highest court Thursday, with civil rights lawyers seeking to overturn a voter-approved ban on gay weddings.
But it was Ken Starr, best known for prosecuting President Bill Clinton, who stole the show on Thursday after leveling an argument that a simple majority vote is enough to remove any right from a minority group. . .
Read more at: RawStory
Still, I got a minor case of butterflies, hearing about the arguments on the news. Here we had the voters initially, and now a court deciding if we ought to be allowed to be married. Despite the fact that we already are. If you are engaged (or would like to be), imagine if voters took that right away. If you are married, imagine if a court annulled it, against your wishes.
So, for all of the "get over it" messages littering the internet, and comments that say "the people have spoken!" I say, the people had no right. And if they did have the right, they'd have the right to do it to ANYBODY. Be warned interracial or interfaith marrieds out there.
Ken Starr, the infamous "Monicagate" lawyer, thinks it's perfectly OK for the masses to vote on and decide other people's rights. So do, it would seem, the supporters of Proposition 8. I say, such an attitude is fundamentally un-American. And I'd love for somebody to tell me how it is not. Minority rights should never be decided by the tyranny of the majority. This thing should have never been up for a vote in the first place.
[Excerpt]
Arguing for Prop. 8, Ken Starr says any right can be taken
California's battle over same-sex marriage went before the state's highest court Thursday, with civil rights lawyers seeking to overturn a voter-approved ban on gay weddings.
But it was Ken Starr, best known for prosecuting President Bill Clinton, who stole the show on Thursday after leveling an argument that a simple majority vote is enough to remove any right from a minority group. . .
Read more at: RawStory
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