Here are some pictures from tonight's rally in front of the old courthouse in Santa Ana, which is the county seat of Orange. I stopped after work, so I still was dressed for the office. I wandered into the crowd and took pictures. At one point I wanted to get up on a wall for a crowd picture and this kindly lady offered me her hand to help me up, dressed as I was in skirt and pumps. Santa Ana PD was out but there really was no job there for them.
I wonder how many of the couples, if any, were part of the 18,000 gay marriages that were validated by today's ruling?
More pictures can be seen here.
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I was especially struck by the protest sign saying "Our Love Cannot Be Invalidated."
It keeps bringing me around to the same sticky wicket I hit every time this issue comes up...I'm not interested in "invalidating" that woman's relationship (or any relationship between or among consenting adults). But she's not entitled to my approval, either.
Does that make any sense?
The local workers went on, just glad to be headed for supper...
What if they had a demonstration, and nobody cared?
Dino,
That's the beauty of our country (for now anyway)... we are afforded the right to "walk on by" if we so choose...
Can I just say: Boo, effin' hoooey!!!
Like anyone is denying them the right to stick their...well, were not, they can enter into a civil relationship and draw up all the civil contracts of relationship they want!
It's funny cause all the heterosexuals are just living together and the gays want to marry what a confused world.
BTW tha last picture--very emotional--makes me want to heave.
Tara,
Actually, it's even simpler than that. California has domestic partnership laws that afford same-sex couples all the practical benefits of marriage. The only differences I'm aware of are: a) it's not called marriage, and b) for anything that deals with the Federal government (i.e. income tax status), it doesn't count.
Now, here in Michigan, we don't have that. Some companies choose to give domestic partner benefits to their employees, but many don't. In Michigan, a same-sex couple (or a straight couple who didn't want to get married) would have to draw up all those civil contracts: powers of attorney, wills, etc.
As for your other point about straights living together and gays wanting to marry...well, the way straights have degraded marriage over the past fifty years or so, I can't help but think we have no one but ourselves to blame for the "redefinition of marriage." How many people would look at divorce stats, adultery stats, etc., and from those conclude that marriage is a permanent union between one man and one woman?
:-(
Kasia,
Your right the we've degraded marriage over the past 50 years, but as a child growing up in the 80s I was very confused about what was truly a healthy sexual relationship with a man, and many women find the hard way it isn't about hooking up, and being empowered with contraception and abortion. Causal sex and cohabitation clouds out what it means to have a man respect you, and as long as a guy doesn't hit you I guess it is ok he addicted to adult material and mooches off your good credit? Since relationship is all about the sexes being equal, and a sexually active woman doesn't need a husband.
People know we have gone astray, we just don't know how to get back on track.
We, do indeed, have lied to ourselves, same-sex marriage is just relying on that same lie as precedent. It is one thing to lie to ourselves, but we demand that children accept this lie. I was lied to as a child, in multiple ways, and when I stand up to say I got it in all wrong on numerous platforms, I'm breaking down a lot of people facades by being open with fact my husband and I are practicing Catholics, sexually monogamous, 'going commando' without contraception, and not distorting the sexual act.
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