Proposition 8: Maggie Gallagher & National Organization for Marriage
Making me less wholeArchive for My thoughts, feelings & opinions: Proposition 8
A note to my classmates! READ FIRST
My fellow classmates,
I know we are all busily reviewing blogs and I wanted to leave a recommendation for how to review my blog. Take a few minutes and watch one or two of the video’s after skimming the posts. You will understand my point of view and hear the research.
A note about my layout, I choose this because it is a fragmented layout, which is how I feel because of this issue, I feel like I am less whole. Enjoy reading!
Why should any heterosexual care?
Why should anyone who isn’t gay care?
Could you imagine if something you had dreamed about from the beginning was not possible because of who you loved?
What if you were not allowed to visit your significant other when they were in the hospital?
What if you couldn’t take care of your family because in the governments mind you were not a family?
What if your marriage was only recognized within your state lines and the moment you crossed them you no longer were legally married?
All of these are rights heterosexual couples have if they choose to marry that same-sex couples are denied, even if they have a civil union. You may still be asking yourself why should I care? And that is a fair question, but picture yourself without those rights? Would you want others to rise up and help you get those rights or would you want them to sit back and watch?
Same-sex marriage is a simple human rights issue of all humans having the same rights and it takes an army of voices and support to make this happen and it cannot just be homosexuals but it must be a chorus of individuals all joining together to say that all people should be equal no matter race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
Because we all want a better world and have to work together to achieve it!
I am whole
I have never in my life felt more robbed and less of a human being then on Tuesday, November 5, 2008. I was told by the state I now call home that I do not deserve to have the same rights as those who are straight. I was told by Maggie Gallagher, NOM and the Church of Later Day Saints of Jesus Christ that I am not equal to them. That they can control my life and tell me who I am and how I should act!!
I am whole!
I have never felt more passion, dedication or conviction to person by person prove to those who voted YES on 8 that I am as deserving of the same rights as they are. I do deserve to be a whole human being and next time when same-sex marriage comes up for a vote I know this state and this country will vote to have all of its members have the same human rights as those opposite sex couples have!!
The Finally and The Beginning
Many YES on 8 supports believed that Tuesday, November 5, 2008 was the end of the fight however, the passage of Proposition 8 has only cause NO on 8 supports to become more driven and more passionate to getting equal rights for all couples across the country.
Maggie Gallagher and NOM may have won the battle but they have not won the war, they have only caused the creation of an army to build against them and for that I am forever thankful to you Maggie Gallagher!
Proposition 8: Maggie Gallagher & National Organization for Marriage 