UPDATE: Although the news media is announcing that Prop 8 passed, apparently as many as 2 million more votes (absentee) still need to be counted.
This is an oportunity to make magic. If you believe in human rights, please send a little energy (or a lot, as you see fit) to work some juju and see this rude, nasty, discriminatory proposition rejected. Every vote counts, and magic works best behind the scene.
Pass this along. Spread the word. Send the energy.
Apparently California has approved the ban on same-sex marriages. To paraphrase what one person said, so eloquently: The rights of farm animals were protected and the rights of humans rejected.
Maybe its time we came at this from the other direction? Maybe its time to make marriage the truly religious sacrament that the supporters of male-female only people make it out to be. Eliminate all benefits: visitation rigths, taxes, automatically benefiting from the partner’s death . . . all of it.
That would go a long way towards healing the discrimination. Because it is discrimination. And it stinks.
Lisa, I know you’ve heard me say it a bunch, but in the interest of sparking a conversation – yes, that’s exactly how this should go. “Marriage” needs to lose all state-sanctioned benefits, then religions (or chess clubs, or whoever) can define it however they like.
In the meantime, if any marriage benefits are really important, they can be dispensed to any two or more people who have chosen to form a household, collective, or whatever you want to call it.
Viva la G-D revolution.
~ John