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Valentine’s Day is evil. Oh sure, short fat Cupid is all smiles with his arrows and talk of love, but he is the spawn of Satan. And if you doubt, then you’ve not listened to Nina Simone’s “The Other Woman.”
Before I start my drinking binge to block out all the heart decorations (for some reason the only thing that makes the day bearable is all the chocolate candy), I’m going to spread the word about the Courage Campaign’s Fidelity video. Next month the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether the 18,000 same sex marriages need to be voided because of the Prop 8 vote. The video is a montage of couples and families, with music by Regina Spektor. Now I know folk will take the Courage Campaign to task for a rather ham fisted way of making a point (hey there Joe!), but after watching it for a few times I’m willing to cut the Campaign some slack.
Mainly because the pictures are so bland and ordinary, like family photos are. Conservatives when they yammer about gay life like to make it some extraordinary thing removed from the mainstream (has anyone ever really explained what the heck “gay lifestyle” means?). They get in a tizzy every gay pride parade with the photos of drag queens or leather lesbians (this is Mr. Bill O’Reilly’s fav, and only, tactic). When you point to the doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, firefighters, police, stockbrokers, dock workers, who are in the same parade the conservatives turn silent because their argument only works when we are “the freaks.”
The 18,000 couples are no freaks. So take your cranky selves over to the Courage Campaign’s site and add your John Hancock.
Video is good….but d*** Morgan I wish you could make SAC,
I will be there.
STR8 Against H8
All these people in this Fidelity video are just ordinary folks. Just got through watching this video and signed my name to protest what Ken Starr is trying to do get these existing marriage made null and void..
If it wasn’t for my possible upcoming jury duty on the morning of Feb 18th in my county here in MD, (have to call in te night before to see if my juror number falls within a selected range of numbers) I would have liked to have been in Sacramento, the capital city of CA on February the 17th with other people from across the country to protest Prop H8.
Regardless of what happens to Prop H8 this March 5th in the CA Supreme Court and when the final ruling eventually comes out of that court, history will likely not be kind to Ken Starr. Because this travesty will not go away or be forgotten for a long time. Same as we have not forgotten Proposition 22, homophobic CA legislator the now deceased Pete Knight (with an estranged gay son), and it was his ballot initiative. Prop 22 that was essentially the same thing as Prop H8 was struck down in May of 2008 by the same court that is hearing mttions to invalidate Prop H8 this year.