I'll admit I am not responding to the passing of Proposition 8 in a timely fashion, but it has taken me over a month to truly come to terms with the state of our once great nation. We have lost the ideal of a nation set out to ensure equal civil liberties for all, and are now denying a substantial number of our citizens the right to marry who they love. This is a monumental testament to the ignorance of our country.
What will allowing same-sex marriage change about straight marriages? The only definition of marriage that matters is the one between you and your spouse. You choose who you want to love, who you want to raise your children with, and who you want to marry - and none of these choices are harmed by allowing two men or two women those same rights!
Interracial marriages were once illegal because of the shortsighted cruelty of white lawmakers who found offense in the love of two people of different races. Yet you cannot choose to be gay or straight anymore than you can choose to be white or black. Can you imagine someone insulting the love you have for your wife or girlfriend as a "lifestyle choice" that, only in some states, can you have a "union" which has some of the same rights but a different name? Can you imagine having to go to the highest court in the nation, just for the chance to argue for your right to marry your wife?
It didn't work with segregation, and so long as we wish to remain a nation truly worthy of respect, it cannot work with marriage. We should look upon this part of our nation's history with great shame and embarrassment, as we do concerning the tragedies of slavery and segregation.
I know I do.
