Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Today, Proposition 8 was upheld.
While I am incredibly dismayed by this decision and frustrated by the reluctance that our state feels toward making progress, I am infused once again with passion for this cause.
The right to marry for homosexuals is this generation's civil rights movement. We must approach adversaries with sympathy-- their closemindedness is often a result of external factors dating back much further than Harvey Milk and peer influences. We must remain persistent in our fight, no battle worth winning is easily attained. Most of all, we must never falter. Today we are faced with a denial of a human right, and through the passage of Proposition 8, the state of California has demonstrated its approval of this denial. This is unacceptable, and a compromise on this issue is a compromise of justice.

Someday soon, this proposition will be overturned. Maybe it will be when we take the offense and not the defense. Maybe it will be when people realize that love is an undeniable and precious commodity. It is rare enough to come by already, I'd hate to see those who are lucky enough to achieve it only be told that their affection is inferior. Because if we don't have love, we don't have much.

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