Please keep fighting

[sawbladesestina]

I finally went to see Milk the night before last. It broke my heart. It's amazing how little ground we've made since the 1970s on the issue of gay rights. We had marriage in California for a moment, only to have it snatched out from under us again. Please keep fighting Prop. 8 in any way you can. Sign petitions, donate (even if it's only a few

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[alagbon]

In one of the advice columns in today's paper a woman was complaining that she wants a fancy church wedding but the guy she's engaged to just wants a civil ceremony, and my first thought was "Quit kvetching, there are people in this country that can't have either and until everyone has the same basic rights you have no room to complain." I really don't understand how the Prop 8 people can be so worked up about something that's really none of their damn business. Marriage should be about love and nothing else, and the irrationalities of a rule-crazy ancient Middle Eastern pastoral deity should have nothing to do with this country's laws; the Republicans claim to want a smaller, less intrusive government but crap like Prop 8 and forcible retroactive divorce is about as intrusive as you can get.