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I have been meaning to update this blog for a long time, I have been so busy with my other blogs I just haven’t had time to write a decent post here, I am sorry but I am not abandoning this blog.
I was going to post today about another child of a mixed orientation marriage who I recently met. You can read Erin’s story here. I was going to give a much bigger intro but then I saw that the judge overturned the ban on gay marriage in CA and wanted to comment very quickly on that.
This decision will be appealed for sure but this is a big step in the right direction. This is what Judge Vaughn Walker had to say about his decision:
“Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples,” Walker went on to say, “Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.”
You can read about this landmark decision here on CNN.
Here on 365 Gay.
And Fox News.
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I don’t get all the hoopla. Well, let me restate, I don’t get all the hoopla against gay marriage. I grew up being taught the “of what consequence is it to you” frame of mind. And really, of what consequence is it to me? So two consenting adults want to marry and be afforded the same rights and priviledges as any other married couple, so what? Exactly how does that affect me or my children in any way? And how can we possibly trust the majority to determine what somebody else’s human/civil rights should be? Really? Voting on human rights???? REALLY??? Prop 8 should never have occured in the first place. The whole idea is ludicrous. If we allowed the majority to determine what human/civil rights minorities should have women would not be voting and interracial marriages would still be illegal.