How Is It Diminished?

In the wake of today's California Supreme Court decision to uphold the legal discriminations provide in Proposition 8 we most look around us to seek out those misinformed, blind faith followers who supported this travesty of justice and ask them ....

HOW? HOW does a marriage between two loving and committed men or two women diminish THEIR marriage? Were they really married in a ceremony in which their vows included the words to love,honor and obey as long as Gay people don't do it too? I have seen far too many news stories on TV or in the newspaper in which they enable the religious right's dogma and hate mongering by repeating the words "protect marriage." Protect marriage from what? Unless you are a polygamist, your vows were between you and your husband or wife. That's it. Not the rest of the world, not society as YOU know it or even approve of it.

Media continues to let the hypocritical right spew terror in the hearts of insecure parents that they will be FORCED to talk about Gay marriage in their own homes when their children happen to watch Gay people get married on TV. Maybe pro Prop 8 parents actually fear that their beliefs are so flawed, that the simple task of "talking" about Gay people with their children will cause their offspring to actually question the shaky ground on which their prejudicial opinions are based. They say marriage was meant to be between a man and a woman. Oh ya? Exactly WHO made that rule. I actually read the box lid for rules to this game called Life and it's not there. They say that research has proven that children are better off being raised by a man and a woman. The ludicrous nature of that argument should force all widowed parents to give up their children.

In the wake of the passage of Prop 8, those who supported it wrote letters to various newspapers, outraged that they were being called hate mongers. Some even wrote things like "I don't hate Gay people, I just don't like when the "flaunt" their lifestyle." First of all, it's not a Life-style, it's a purely rewarding, loving and societal contributing LIFE. As far as "flaunt" since when is doing exactly what heterosexuals do in public, flaunting a lifestyle. If you are offended when we hold hands in public, kiss while walking down the street, or call each other "hon" in the grocery store please feel free to return to your monastery.

But with the confirmation of proposition 8, perhaps a law against those public displays of affection is around the corner. Today's decision is painful to us all but only a battle in the war. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."