I am crying, right now.

[angledge]

The California Courage Campaign reports that Ken Starr (of Clinton-Whitewater-Monica-Lewinsky infamy) & the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund will present their case to the California Supreme Court starting on March 5, 2009 demanding that the Court void 18,000 marriages of same-sex couples that were legally performed between June 16 & November 4, 2008 in that state. The same court that ruled that citizens of the State of California could not be denied the right of marriage by mere virtue of their sexual orientation will hear Starr’s pleas to not only deny those self-same citizens of the right to marry, but to validate the idea that a minority’s rights are subject to plebiscite. Ken Starr & his minions will, in essence, seek to force divorce on all those couples who simply took advantage of their right to make a legal bond with the person they love.

The Courage Campaign's website is featuring an incredible video with a simple message: "Don't Divorce Us". The song in this video is entitled “Fidelity” by Regina Spektor, who gave full permission to use it in the battle to overturn Prop 8 in California.

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo

As Americans who believe in the rule of law and fundamental civil rights, we know that Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund's shameful attempt to nullify these unions will not be vindicated in the eyes of history. We know that, ultimately, love will prevail, no matter how hard they try to fight it.

So simple, right??

Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Do something. Sign the petition.

Comments

"...strong in the broken places."

[misterc.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful point! What you write about the world "get[ting] to know us" which is the key to our ability to "change the minds" of those who haven't already slammed theirs shut, I am reminded of why I have never given up hope that "the way things are" can be remade.

Whatever fear abounds in this world toward people like us almost invariably comes from ignorance about who we are. If you don't know of someone who is of a minority sexual orientation & all you've ever known is what has been spoon-fed to you from others with the aforementioned closed minds and/or from people who are themselves ignorant about people like us, then you usually have no reason to doubt what you've always heard & believed is undoubtedly true. Unfortunately, we humans find it irresistibly easy to fear & even hate people & things which we do not know. That doesn't make it right or fair...just true.

Towards the end of my closet world, when I had become so tired of hiding & tired of hurting & even tired of "living", I came to finally understand that the act of coming out was not just something I needed to do for my own life & my own dwindling sanity; it was for all the others in this world who suffered in silence & weren't strong enough yet to stand up for themselves...for the unknown numbers of my brothers & sisters who didn't understand the power they've always had to loose the chains that have always tethered them to the lie that they are somehow less. By finally understanding that the world could not hurt me or hate me any more than I had hurt & hated myself for being a "living", (barely) breathing lie, I was truly set free.

I know now that my refusal to cower in silence any longer & to begin my search for "me"--in some small way--makes the path for the next person who finally becomes sick & tired of being sick & tired a little easier to tread.

From the darkest of my days hiding in plain sight, I have learned that, in the midst of our real or perceived brokenness, whether at the hands of the world or even by our own hands, it can be nearly impossible to dream of or hope for a better day, but, for so many of us--too busy hiding to notice--the power to change not just our own reality, but the world, actually lies in the debris of our nearly-destroyed lives. All we have to do is claim it. Easier said than done, right??

As Ernest Hemingway wrote in his novel, A Farewell To Arms, "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places."