I thank that God everyday that I was raised in a tolerant household. I was raised to believe that if a man and man or woman and a woman wanted to get married, if they were in love it was no different than any other ceremony of that kind. Not twenty years before my parents' friends, a white woman and a black man, got married in the '80s, their marriage would have been considered perverse and illegal by some states. Why must we throw hate into the mix with love?
It sickens me that on the same night America can overcome so much of its dirty past and elect a black president, Californians can so blatantly deny its citizens rights just because of the way they were born.
I am proud to be part of a generation that accepts differences. I only wish more of us had the courage to create a greater social change at the voting booth.
Luckily, there are folks around the country who have been trying to create change. The LA Times has created a robust, searchable database of individuals who both supported and opposed Prop 8. You can search by state, so I did that for Wisconsin.
It warms my heart that 93 people in Wisconsin gave money ($26,445) to oppose Prop 8. That's beyond wonderful. I thank each and every one of them and you can look up more info in the database above. If you know any of them, please give them a huge hug and props from me.
For now, thank you to:
- ALEXANDRA LYON
- ANDREW MILES
- BARBARA LEVIN
- BERNARD FRIEDLANDER
- BETH BINHAMMER
- BETHANNE YEAGER
- BETHANY ORDAZ
- BEVERLY PHILLIPS
- BRETT GOODWIN
- BRIAN CUMMINS
- BRUCE HARVILLE
- CARLA DRAPER
- CAROL FEUERSTEIN
- CAROL GLASER
- CAROL LASKOWSKI
- CATHERINE WATKINS
- CHAD WEGE
- CHARLES F. SOMMERS
- CHARLES LEDUC
- CHERI BRICCO
- CHESTER DAXE
- CRAIG KIMBALL
- DALE NEWMAN
- DANIEL SCHMIDT
- DAVID BAUGH
- DAVID SCHWAKE
- DAVID WELLS
- DE ETTE TOMLINSON
- ELI JUDGE
- EVELYN GILDRIE-VOYLES
- GEORGETTE WONDERS
- GREG BROWN
- HONA LEE HARRINGTON
- JACOB FRICK
- JANET OLSEN
- JEFF BITGOOD
- JEFFREY EVANS
- JEFFREY SCHAUB
- JESS BENSON
- JESSE C. ANDERSON
- JIMMY OWEN
- JOHN BECKER
- JOHN HNILICKA
- JON KEEVIL
- JOSE SENTMANAT
- JOSEPH VARGA
- KAREN CHRISTIANSON
- KATE BRONDINO
- KATHLEEN DOLAN
- KATHLEEN GRAHAM
- KEITH SPRUCE
- KEVIN FLAHERTY
- KIRK DOW
- LAURA GENNE
- LAUREN BROWN
- LAWRENCE NASH
- LINDA WARE
- LOIS SWANSON
- MARY C. FONS
- MARY WAITROVICH
- MITCHELL CONKLIN
- MORTON GERNSBACHER
- MYRON WOJTOWYCZ
- NANCY RAFFETTO
- PATRICK FLAHENTY
- PAUL PATENAUDE
- PAULA KEDZIE
- PHIL SCARR
- RAJIV BHAT
- RAYMOND KONZ-KRZYMINSKI
- RICHARD MYERS
- ROBERT BRUCKERT
- ROBERT CORRIS
- ROBERT HAMAN
- ROBERT POEHLING
- RONALD MERSHART
- RORY METCALF
- SAMUEL YORK
- SARA OSWALD
- SHARON GRUTZMACHER
- STEPHEN KANTROWITZ
- STEPHEN P BERG
- STEVE CHADDERDON
- STEVEN ZIMMERMAN
- STEVEN-JAMES MILLER-BALISTRERI
- SUSAN CHRISTENSEN
- SUSAN PANGER
- SUZANNE FORTIER
- THOMAS WILMS
- TODD PEISSIG
- WILLIAM MORSE
- WILMA LUGER
- ZACHARY STRUYK
It is not the marriage issue of gay and lesbian that concerns me.It is the law that I don't believe is right.If gays can get married,then I don't believe they should be able to adopt a child.If you can't have a child as GOD intended then it should not be.A child should be given a chance to grow up with-out sex being a main topic of discussion as it would be in a gay relationship.You could say WE wouldn't discuss it,but as know kids will tease them in school.I.E.kid down the street had lesbian mother and friend,I felt sorry for him(last I heard he died of drug overdose)
ReplyDeleteHow many times does Anonymous contradict his/herself here? Last I checked in America we have a little thing called "separation of Church and State," so I don't know where (s)he is coming at with throwing "God" and "law" around. Also, if you are going to leave a bigoted comment on my blog, I'd really appreciate you using your actual name and not "anonymous."
ReplyDelete"If you can't have a child as god intended than it should not be." What is that supposed to mean? Should infertile couples not be allowed to adopt? Because that's the conclusion I would reach based on the "logic" posted by anonymous.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the hater found your blog?
great post
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