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May 15, 2008 3:58 PM
Let's get gay married!
Back in November, we were projecting Tom Tomorrow cartoons around San Francisco and letting people on the streets text message dialogue for Bush and Cheney.
One of my favorites was when someone in the Castro txted in "Let's get gay married." Well, now it's possible here in California.
It's been hard to get any work done around the office -- the CREDO staff has been so stunned and excited about the California Supreme Court decision that has given gay and lesbian couples in our state the freedom to marry.
Many of us are leaving our San Francisco office soon to head up Market Street to the Community Center where the city is gathering to celebrate this victory. We're bringing over 2,000 "thank you letters" that our members have emailed Mayor Newsom today and hope to deliver them in person tonight.
You may remember that Mayor Newsom was famous (and in some circles infamous) for issuing marriage certificates to same sex couples in 2004 -- and paving the way to today's victory.
The very first message dispatched this morning by one of our members read:
May you receive the love you have just legitimized one thousand times over.
If you want to join us in sending Mayor Newsom your thanks, click here.
Also much deserving of our thanks is the legal team at National Center for Lesbian Rights who led the the court case on behalf of the San Francisco "gay married" couples to victory. We're proud to be a funder of NCLR. (If you're a CREDO member, you don't have to wait until the end of the year -- you can vote now to distribute our donations.)
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.. Hello,
.... By pushing HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, Credo is destroying all its credibility with any normal people. Homosexuality is simply an ADDICTION to perverted forms of sex. Next you'll want a marriage between every two (or more!) people with any and EVERY addiction such as drug addict marriage, obesity marriage, greed marriage, religion marriage, couch potato marriage, etc. We DON'T need "_______ marriage" for every addiction out there!!
.... The 6 biggest addictions: drugs, religion, homosexuality, couch potato, obesity, greed(think Pres. EvilBusHitler Jr.)
.... Marriage should be a special social coupling between a male and a female granting special benefits (if needed) from the puiblic to help them with the demands of procreation and child rearing/support...
.... Sharing addiction(s) should not automatically qualify people for marriage...
http://www.NormalPeople.org
This is simply a case of activist judges spitting in the face of democracy. This proposition was voted down by the people, and the wishes of the people were vanquished by a too powerful judiciary. Come November it will be voted down just like in every other state.
I'm heterosexual and my persoanl relationships have more to them than just sex. Likewise I can assume that is true for same sex relationships. However most homophobes can't see beyond their tunnel vision of other people's sexuality. They see gay marriage as only see the sexual behavior as if that was all there was to these folk's lives. There is more depth to these relationship than what happens in the bedroom (or whereever.)Marriage is about bonding, not just sexual behavior.
My religious community believes that it is an important principle of how we practice our faith that we recognize same-sex unions and accord them the same dignity and honor we do opposite-sex unions. We have been doing this for twelve years and have never had any problems. Our same-sex families are dedicated, faithful, committed members of our community. They uphold our values, love one another, and for those who have children raise their children in the principles of our faith. The only obstacles we have encountered are that the legal system to this point has not recognized our same-sex marriages as equal to marriages performed at other churches/synagogues/what have you. This is religious discrimination as well as discrimination against our gay and bisexual community members, and it has been a source of great pain for our whole community.
I'm proud to say that we are located in California, and now all our marriages can be considered equally valid and we'll have the same rights and privileges as any other church or synagogue. We can be free to practice our faith, and other communities can be free to practice their faiths.
It is easy for the majority to vote to infringe on the rights of the minority in whatever way they like. But that's not what America is about, and I'm glad CREDO recognizes and supports that. I'm glad the prevailing decision of the court (written by a Republican appointee, and you should read it) also recognizes that.
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Since when are love and caring an addiction. My partner and I have been together for 22 years and because of disabilities, sex has hardly played a part in our relationship. Perhaps you need to examine your own addiction - fear - and deal with it in a positive way rather than condemning everyone else as an addict.
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