Posted by: lgbtsacto | November 15, 2008
Cynthia Nixon on Larry King Live on Prop 8
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Cynthia Nixon, Larry King, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Sacramento
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Cynthia Nixon, Larry King, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Sacramento
If elections were held on a Thursday, Prop 8 wouldn’t have passed? Ha. How naive.
“…and now no one will let me get married.” Actually, everyone will let you get married. You still have the same exact rights that everyone in America has: to get married to someone of the opposite sex.
The LDS Church has never made ‘robo-calls’ or endorsed candidates or political parties. Are the collective members of the LDS Church disallowed from every organizing themselves again to fight for something they believe in? I hope not.
California also affords every law-abiding citizen their full civil rights. Every person of age in California has a right to marry. Everyone. By legalizing same-sex marriage, special rights are being promoted.
By: Jesse on November 15, 2008
at 9:52 pm
I really liked the CNN discussion. Joy did ask a couple of hard hitting questions, which I thought was interesting.
As for Jesse’s comment, I of course have heard that argument before, that we already have the right to get married. But the problem is, the law defines whom we can marry and whom we cannot, which is unnecessarily limiting.
Now I know the rest of the LGBT community would hate me for saying this, but I actually believe that the marriage issue should be argued as an issue of sexism. What the law says is that men cannot marry men because they are men, and women cannot marry women because they are women. That is wrong. I believe that if we changed the argument to make it one of equal rights for men and women, regardless of sexual orientation, we may turn this into a more inclusive issue and garner more support from very sensible people.
By: Mateo on November 18, 2008
at 3:45 am