Thorne | February 14, 2009 | 2:13 am
It’s officially Valentine’s day. I have to work today, so I won’t be posting, but as I was blog hopping a bit before sleep tonight, I came across a post at Byrning Bunny, which led me to Blog This Mom.
I was greeted by an image of an adorable, smiling family and went on the read the post, wondering what on earth the problem could be for these cuties. I had to scroll back up and look at the image again.
You see… for me, seeing 2 dads or 2 moms is so normal, so… natural, that I didn’t even notice. That the pic was of 2 dads with their adorable children. All I saw was a happy family.
Hop on over and check them out. Because if Kenneth Starr has his way, the smiling Dads in the image will soon be divorced. They, along with around 18,000 other same sex couple in California. Not because they can’t live with each other any more, or because they’ve grown apart… not because they’ve fallen out of love or have irreconcilable differences; no. Simply because some folks don’t think they should be married.
I think that sucks, don’t you?
If you think it sucks too, please go to Courage Campaign and add your virtual signature to the 235,819 others who have already signed the letter/petition there.
It’s not a ballot initiative; you don’t need to be a registered voter or a resident of California.
All you need is love. Just a little love and the belief that people shouldn’t be divorced against their will.
Watch the video. Sign the petition. Please.
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Thorne | February 5, 2009 | 4:11 am
Courtesy of The Pagan Sphinx
Equal but separate? Let’s hope not.
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California Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments
in Prop 8 Legal Challenge on March 5
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| The California Supreme Court must issue its decisions within 90 days of oral argument. |
| On January 15, 2009, 43 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the Court to invalidate Prop 8 were filed, arguing that Proposition 8 drastically alters the equal protection guarantee in California’s Constitution and that the rights of a minority cannot be eliminated by a simple majority vote. The supporters represent the full gamut of California’s and the nation’s civil rights organizations and legal scholars, as well as California legislators, local governments, bar associations, business interests, labor unions, and religious groups. |
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Thorne | November 11, 2008 | 3:21 am
All I can say is, Wow. Wow that after discovering 2 days ago that my partner’s sister, a self proclaimed Christian, who claims to follow Christ’s message of “unconditional love”; does not believe that her own sister has the right to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Perhaps she was poisoned by the fear campaign of teaching gay marriage in schools. Odd, however that she chooses to rent space here on our property, and have her 2 teenaged sons in the direct influence of our homosexual love.
I must admit, that she nearly killed (yet again) my hope that there were any Christians out there who actually followed Christ’s teachings.
This article, this sermon, this Church, renews my hope.
What I want to say tonight is that Proposition 8 may have passed but it will not prevail.
And we are the ones who will make it happen. We – those of us gathered at Christ Church tonight and those of us committed to the gospel agenda of the full inclusion of all the baptized in all the sacraments all over this great church of ours – we have been called in this time and in this place what prophets always do – to claim the high calling of comforting the afflicted – and afflicting the comfortable.
You may not feel like a prophet. I know I don’t.
And you don’t love your neighbors by spending millions of dollars on a fear based ad campaign in order to take away their right to marry by writing discrimination into the constitution intended to protect the rights of all citizens.
And our voices are the ones needed to speak out, to step up and to offer our alternative message of hope, love, inclusion and acceptance.
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