My restoration of faith in the American people (or United States citizens so that Chando won\u2019t have a coronary) was inevitably tainted by the closed-mindedness, arrogance, and ass-backwards thinking of the slight majority of Californians who voted in favor of Proposition 8 \u2014 which according to them is not a discriminatory measure because the equal rights of gays are being recognized by a \u201cseparate but equal??? alternative: civil unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahem. Separate is not equal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I repeat: Separate is NOT equal. (Brown v. Board of Education. Anyone? Anyone?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The proponents of Prop. 8 claim that marriage, as defined by religion, society, and biology, is a societal construct necessary for procreation and consequently cannot be redefined to include same-sex (in other words, non-procreating) couples. But marriage is now a legal institution. It is a fundamental right between two consenting adults. Under the law, having two separate institutions to describe this legal relationship is discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am terribly disappointed and quite offended by this outcome. How dare you presume you have the right to dictate how others live their lives? How dare you tell someone who they can or can\u2019t marry or even if they can marry at all? How dare you deny your fellow human beings their civil rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope that what happened on Tuesday was nothing more than a small setback. That those who have an irrational and ungrounded fear in same-sex marriage will soon see the light. Let us only take steps forward from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My restoration of faith in the American people (or United States citizens so that Chando won\u2019t have a coronary) was inevitably tainted by the closed-mindedness, arrogance, and ass-backwards thinking of the slight majority of Californians who voted in favor of Proposition 8 \u2014 which according to them is not a discriminatory measure because the equal rights of gays are being recognized by a \u201cseparate but equal??? alternative: civil unions. Ahem. Separate is not equal. I repeat: Separate is NOT equal. (Brown v. Board of Education. Anyone? Anyone?) The proponents of Prop. 8 claim that marriage, as defined by religion, society, and biology, is a societal construct necessary for procreation and consequently cannot be redefined to include same-sex (in other words, non-procreating) couples. But marriage is now a legal institution. It is a fundamental right between two consenting adults. Under the law, having two separate institutions to describe this legal relationship is discrimination. I am terribly disappointed and quite offended by this outcome. How dare you presume you have the right to dictate how others live their lives? How dare you tell someone who they can or can\u2019t marry or even if they can marry at all? How dare you deny your fellow human beings their civil rights? I hope that what happened on Tuesday was nothing more than a small setback. That those who have an irrational and ungrounded fear in same-sex marriage will soon see the light. Let us only take steps forward from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[117,135,125,119],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-california","tag-civil-rights","tag-gay-rights","tag-proposition-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75561,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/75561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaravilla.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}