Be a force for equal rights.
Scalzi has some words for today that I find inspiring:
I hope you will do the right thing, the just thing, and the moral thing when you vote, and that is to cast your vote against discrimination, against bigotry and against prejudice. You don’t have to approve of same-sex marriage to recognize that voting to take away a right already won is unjust and unfair. This vote matters, possibly more than other votes you have made so far. In times to come you’ll want to be able to say to your children that when you were asked to judge whether your fellow men and women deserved the same rights as others - rights they already had but which were in your power to take away - that you stood with them rather than against them, and in standing with them affirmed there was no “them,” only us.
I hope you will do the right thing, the just thing, and the moral thing when you vote, and that is to cast your vote against discrimination, against bigotry and against prejudice. You don’t have to approve of same-sex marriage to recognize that voting to take away a right already won is unjust and unfair. This vote matters, possibly more than other votes you have made so far. In times to come you’ll want to be able to say to your children that when you were asked to judge whether your fellow men and women deserved the same rights as others - rights they already had but which were in your power to take away - that you stood with them rather than against them, and in standing with them affirmed there was no “them,” only us.