...before it's too late.

[eclective]

I'm having trouble working out how to say this without sounding preachy, or overbearing, or otherwise turning people off. As such, I hope that you'll trust in me for a little while, and bear with me while I try to make a statement that I think is important

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[seika]

I really need some more clarification on how this works, but it's definitely an interesting factoid.

The Supreme Court ruled that because of the equal-rights clause, either everyone had a right to be married or everyone had a right to a domestic partnership. Because Prop 8 doesn't nullify the clause that was the basis of that ruling, it will still stand even if Prop 8 is passed. And because of that ruling, if there are people who don't have a right to be married, then no one has the right to be married (although everyone can have a domestic partnership).

So, if people want to preserve marriage in California, they need to vote no, or else no one will have a legal right to get married. And that goes for the conservative straight traditional church-going folks every bit as much as the gays.

Of course, it seems obvious to me that if people truly value marriage, they should not make rules that say that certain people can't get married. In fact, I would think the conservatives would be glad to find out that lots of gay people want to have traditional nuclear families just like they do, rather than being promiscuous sinners or anything. But I suppose that would make them start thinking about gay couples as being normal human beings who are just like them, and that would be uncomfortable, wouldn't it?

[eclective]

Yay, that was what I wanted to know. Thanks for this. I know you'd told me about it, I just didn't have enough of the details down to give a coherent description back.

Also, icon? Oddly appropriate.