I’m incredibly upset about Prop 8 being upheld.  I’m glad that my mother and her wife are able to stay legally married, but I’m very upset that the courts decided that gay and lesbian couples are less “valid” than heterosexual couples.

I want to post all of my thoughts and feelings about it, but I don’t have the energy right now.  All I will say is this:

How dare one group of people remove the rights of another.

The fact that the court upheld this proposition disgusts me.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/04/MN6I16807P.DTL

My personal opinion is of course that prop 8 was insane. I feel very strongly that two loving consenting adults should have the same rights as anybody else.

I would be absolutely livid if my marriage to the woman I love (who happens to be a kiwi), was invalidated because some else thinks that marriage should be between Americans tells me that my marriage is no longer valid. They want to break up my loving family because of something THEY believe.

Screw that.

I’m sorry, but I think that prop 8 is a violation of a basic human right. My mother and her partner were married in september, and it was a beautiful, wonderful event full of love, joy, excitement, and validation of an amazing relationship.

Their relationship has nothing to do with anybody but themselves and their family. We all support it, so leave them alone Ken Starr.

http://www.hrc.org/endthelies/index.html

I occationally read this great blog called Margaret and Helen.  It’s written by two lovely and honest old women who have been friends for over 60 years.  They have no qualms about speaking however they feel, and I love it.

I don’t even know how many times they called Palin a B*tch.  Or Anne Coulter.  Or Elizabeth Hasselbeck.  Or Hannity.

It’s great.

Anyway, Helen just posted a great bit about how we as a country have moved past politics of old.. and poor rush, poor anne, poor elizabeth, poor sean.. they’re stuck in the past.

Welcome back America.