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Dec. 19th, 2008 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browngirlProp. 8 sponsors seek to nullify 18K gay marriages.
I wish I were surprised by this attempt to use the law to oppress people. I hope people are right that this won't be done because it would be a retroactive application of the law.
I do have two things to say, though:
1) People keep drawing parallels between the current fight for LGBT rights and the Civil Rights Movement. I believe in a lot of those parallels, and I wish someone smarter and more eloquent than I would take Dr. King's Why We Can't Wait as a springboard for explaining why we can't wait now.
2) I want to find all the people I saw say that those fighting for marriage equality are as bigoted (or worse OMGWTFBBQ) as those who support efforts like Proposition 8 and its ilk, and show this to them, and ask them if we are really morally worse than people trying to dismantle 18,000 families. I do not believe we are. I won't -- I would put friends in the middle of the ensuing fights -- but oh do I want to.
I wish I were surprised by this attempt to use the law to oppress people. I hope people are right that this won't be done because it would be a retroactive application of the law.
I do have two things to say, though:
1) People keep drawing parallels between the current fight for LGBT rights and the Civil Rights Movement. I believe in a lot of those parallels, and I wish someone smarter and more eloquent than I would take Dr. King's Why We Can't Wait as a springboard for explaining why we can't wait now.
2) I want to find all the people I saw say that those fighting for marriage equality are as bigoted (or worse OMGWTFBBQ) as those who support efforts like Proposition 8 and its ilk, and show this to them, and ask them if we are really morally worse than people trying to dismantle 18,000 families. I do not believe we are. I won't -- I would put friends in the middle of the ensuing fights -- but oh do I want to.
