California is going ahead with its plans to allow gay couples to marry, starting June 17, because technically, the state supreme court still has until the end of June 16 to decide whether to delay its previous ruling.
I still feel very apprehensive and a little unloved because I know there’s those lurkers out there, quite willing to steal our legal happiness away.
In my part of the state, only 38% of people approve of gay marriage. And most of them are probably gay themselves, I joked.
I don’t think I really thought seriously about how hatred and misunderstanding and faceless judgment of me and my love really hurt until it came down to trying to snatch it back away. It’s like handing a child a shiny toy for one minute and then snatching it away and crushing it underfoot, and watching that child cry. Cruel, unnecessary.
The conservatives just can never be content with losing. As if loving someone was losing.
We need more love and understanding in this world, not less. I don’t want to hate anyone, but I am prepared to hate a group of people willing to take away this one little thing that has come to mean so much to me: being just like everyone else, with the same rights as anyone else. (more…)
