A Video that was shot after California banned gay marriage.
Embedded from “Educate Against Prop 8″
This is why eventually there will be equality (As seen at the West Hollywood Rally on Tuesday, May 26th).
I just sent the following to my state senator. A same-sex marriage bill passed the New York State Assembly last month, and I am pessimistic about its chances to make it through the Senate before June 20, when the current legislative session ends, but I think I’ll be sending a lot of letters to this effect for awhile. The next one goes to President Obama.
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Dear Senator Perkins,
My name is Tracy van Cort, and I live at [address redacted] in Harlem (10027). I am a constituent of your district and I am writing to ask you to vote YES on the Marriage Equality Bill (S:4401).
My partner and I have been together for more than ten years, and I would like to marry him someday — but only under a law that recognizes all committed couples. I believe that ultimately legal marriage must accommodate all couples, or be replaced by a new institution based on equal rights and responsibilities rather than morality based on religion or culture, and so I would happily sign onto a domestic partnership, civil union, reciprocal beneficiary status, or any such separate but unequal legal arrangement — but New York doesn’t offer one. So, if you absolutely cannot or will not vote YES on S:4401, please support legal alternatives to marriage for all couples, not just same-sex.
Thank you,
-Tracy van Cort
Tags: activism, letters, marriage equality, New York State, personal stories
As one of those people who don’t care for chewing the gristle, I rarely take the opportunity to dive into hundreds of pages of legal documents just to form the same conclusion pundits the nation over have formed in response to yesterday’s Proposition 8 decision.
But maybe I should start.
Seneca Doane over at DailyKos posits that yesterday’s Proposition 8 ruling is actually a blessing in disguise. She goes on to say that while we all assume Prop 8 is an attempt to put a very hefty nail into the equality movement’s coffin (assuming it had any plans to die soon), the CA Supreme Court has taken a very narrow approach when defining their decision. Read the rest of this entry »
