Posts tagged “civil rights”

Six months in, and the gay community is understandably frustrated with Obama. The DOMA brief was genuinely troubling, but his Stonewall speech clarified his position: DADT and DOMA are on the list, just not at the top. Fix the economy and healthcare first. Then our turn.

The California Supreme Court upheld Prop 8, letting a voting majority strip away my civil rights. So fuck you, California voters. The rest of the country is moving on without you, and soon you'll just look like hateful throwbacks alongside Mississippi.

I'm urging Californians to vote no on Proposition 8, which would eliminate same-sex marriage rights. Arguments against gay marriage don't hold up: marriage grants legal rights to people of all faiths. Voting yes is like supporting interracial marriage bans. Please vote no, or donate to the campaign.

Go read my thoughts on Bush's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, posted over at the gay geek site.

I support civil unions over gay marriage. Marriage is a religious ceremony, like a bar mitzvah, and we shouldn't demand access to it. But the legal rights marriage provides? Those are a human rights issue. Separate the two, grant civil unions to all couples, and let churches sort out the rest.