From an AP story: Meanwhile, the interfaith California Council of Churches and the Episcopal bishops of Northern California and Los Angeles added their petition Monday to those asking the high court to invalidate Proposition 8. They argue that if voters are permitted to take away rights from a group based on sexual orientation, the same could
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I have never been a particularly political person until the last 6 months or so. Today I attend my first political protest . It was the 10-nation wide protest I posted about earlier. It was great to see a couple of hundred people of varying ages, genders, ethnicities and sexualities all coming together to protest against discrimination. It was
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John Corvino has written another (IMO) brilliant column on how to move forward after the defeat of prop. 8. My favorite bit (from a rhetorical standpoint) is:For every time the “Yes on 8” campaign showed that little girl telling her mom how she learned in school about two princes who got married, I wish “No on 8” would have shown a little girl
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OK, this may be long.... and it may be rambling..... So I'm going to break it up into lovely LJ Cut sections and you can just read the ones you care about (which may be none ... and I'm OK with that
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I would like to write about my emotions at the moment, but I can't. I can't talk about them.
I can fake OK-ness for about 2 hours (Unfortunately my classes tomorrow are each 3 hours long -- and one features the student in the "yes-on 8" t-shirt)