Today is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riot in New York that perhaps began the gay rights movement in 1969. That movement continues today in the effort here in California to overturn Prop 8, the ban on equal rights for all citizens. One of the issues that the groups that voted for 8 don't seem to get is that the people that started the ban on same sex marriage are coming for you too. They will eventually use the momentum to redefine birth control as abortion, outlaw your choice about using fertility technology to help infertile couples and make taking a contraceptive a felon homicide. They are coming for you. If you don't stand for freedom of groups that you aren't a member of, no one will be left to stand for your rights.
One way to arrest the momentum is to ask President Obama to overturn DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act that Bill Clinton was bullied into signing a few years ago. Another is to support the campaign to invalidate Prop 8 in California. You can talk to your friends about the rights of gay and lesbian couples to marry. The lies that were used to promote prop 8 (teaching gay sex in schools, forcing all churches to marry queers, etc)
Never forget, they are coming for YOU!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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