Marriage is love
Oct. 11th, 2004 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseSo, I just got home from the Marriage Equality rally in Washington D.C. Damn, it rocks being this close to the nation's capitol! And it was on C-span, which rocks.
It was so sweet, and so sad. They had many, many couples speaking who had married in San Francisco and subsequently had their marriages anulled. To think of what they must have gone through...even though everyone knew that anullment was inevitable, it still must have been a huge blow. One man read us the vows that he and his husband wrote. He was crying by the end of it, and I just wanted to hit something.
Why do these people have to suffer? There was a girl who's partner was Welsh, and because they were homosexuals she couldn't sponsor her for a visa. They were living on borrowed time, with only a few months before the American would either have to lose the love of her life or leave her home and family. This is so wrong! I don't understand how people can be so bigoted. How could you look these people in the face and tell them that their love was wrong? How could you try to legislate them out of existence? Didn't we decide that separate but equal was not acceptable?
The words are important, damn it! We need to be able to MARRY. Civil unions are not good enough. You know why? Because it's still saying that homosexuals are inherently different, the other, scary. Not Like Us. And that's just not okay.
How can it be that all these people still are not free?
Oh yeah, and Superman is dead. You know what? I really, really hate the Shrub.
It was so sweet, and so sad. They had many, many couples speaking who had married in San Francisco and subsequently had their marriages anulled. To think of what they must have gone through...even though everyone knew that anullment was inevitable, it still must have been a huge blow. One man read us the vows that he and his husband wrote. He was crying by the end of it, and I just wanted to hit something.
Why do these people have to suffer? There was a girl who's partner was Welsh, and because they were homosexuals she couldn't sponsor her for a visa. They were living on borrowed time, with only a few months before the American would either have to lose the love of her life or leave her home and family. This is so wrong! I don't understand how people can be so bigoted. How could you look these people in the face and tell them that their love was wrong? How could you try to legislate them out of existence? Didn't we decide that separate but equal was not acceptable?
The words are important, damn it! We need to be able to MARRY. Civil unions are not good enough. You know why? Because it's still saying that homosexuals are inherently different, the other, scary. Not Like Us. And that's just not okay.
How can it be that all these people still are not free?
Oh yeah, and Superman is dead. You know what? I really, really hate the Shrub.
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Date: 2004-10-13 01:13 pm (UTC)The box turtle thing cracks me up...I think these anti-gay folks are revealing more than they want to admit with their fixation on "perversions"...