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Wow. I'm pro gay marriage -- my best friend was one of the couples unmarried by the CA supreme court -- but I'm not sure if this is progress or not. Honestly,
by earl 16y ago
Wow. I'm pro gay marriage -- my best friend was one of the couples unmarried by the CA supreme court -- but I'm not sure if this is progress or not. Honestly, I'd really like this not to end up like abortion, still fighting the misogynists 45 years later; I don't know if having this decided by the courts or by popular vote will result in less fighting. Civil rights for black people required both court decisions and laws.
Maybe it doesn't make a difference; small people will always need someone to hate.
- mbateman 16y agoTed Olson (one of the lawyers on the case) had a response in the New Yorker article on this case that I thought was pretty killer: > "I have spent a fair amount of time reading Dr. King's response to people who said, 'People aren't ready for this,'" [Olson] said. "His 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail,' one of the more moving documents in history, addresses this. If people are suffering and being hurt by discrimination, and their children and their families are...then who are we as lawyers to say, 'Wait ten years'?"