In defense of marriage, we should all be able to do it.
The Supreme Court has announced that it will share its long-awaited ruling on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 tomorrow.
Tomorrow should be quite a day. I envision it like election day meets the streets of Chicago after the the Bulls repeated the threepeat.
I fully expect a newsmedia frenzy and a riot here or there.
I have a lot of feelings about this topic - basically stemming from my utter disbelief that I live in a world where the right to marry is up for debate.
I'm not sure exactly where to start or how much to share, but I've started several sentences with, "Seriously?"
Still, it's tough to find an entry point to the conversation without a bottle of wine and twenty-seven thousand words to fully develop my talking points.
Instead, I thought I'd keep it light and share a few poignant, but funny signs in support of marriage.
While humor can be a useful tool to dismiss the haters, it shouldn't detract from the gravity of the decision at hand.
There's a pervasive point of view based on the use of God, Jesus, religion and the Bible (to name a few things) to oppose the freedom to marry for gay people. Personally, I find it ridiculous to think that, if there is a God or a Jesus or a Holy Spirit or what have you, that any of them would hate a certain group of people enough to deny them the ability to be married - something that only affects the people in that particular relationship.
That aside, (you can't fight crazy) there is an equality issue that affords married persons certain tax, legal, medical, government, esate planning, death, employment, housing, consumer and family rights that non-married persons cannot attain. To deny them based on sexual preference is just wrong.
I sincerely hope that tomorrow, we take another step forward toward positive change and human acceptance - not a step back.
Come on Supreme Court ... do the right thing.
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