...who can equate gay marriage with 911. How can they do that? If you aren't following the trial on Prop 8, you should be. We all should be. This is text from one of the ads that the pro-Prop 8 people bombarded the airwaves with:
“I think a helpful way to think about this is to compare it to 9/11 because a lot of us are asking: How does this directly affect us? Well I wasn’t directly affected by 9/11 and my guess is most of you weren’t either in the sense I didn’t know somebody who crashed the plane in the building. I didn’t know somebody who was in the building. But after 9/11 the world was a fundamentally different place and that has affected me. The change in the redefinition of marriage is the same type of thing.” Well, let's consider that for a moment. In a much more realistic and fundamental way, this taking away of the civil rights of a part of the population, a part of the population that many Americans might think doesn't impact their lives, (but let's be real, we all have gay friends, gay relatives, gay teachers and doctors, and, yeah, lovers) does negatively impact every one of us. We're all affected by what they did in California, what
they have done in Maine, and what they want to do across the whole country. It is ugly and it's wrong and if you aren't against them, then you're helping them.
You can find the transcripts of the trial at the American Foundation for Equal Rights
http://www.equalrightsfoundation.org/our-work/hearing-transcripts/Arwen, not putting this under a L-cut because it's too important
