PRESERVE marriage rights in California

But my goals around it have changed.

It looks like New Hampshire did what California could not do.

SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed.

A mixed message.

It makes no sense.

Maybe we need to rewrite this goal now. It will not be over until same-sex marriage is not banned.

Hawaii senate leader Colleen Hanabusa stands between gay marriage rights and the people.

In a recent conversation with the legislative liaison with my company, I learned that 15 contacts – phone calls, emails, etc addressing an issue is huge.

So if 15 people from the state of Hawaii contacted Colleen Hanabusa as well as their own elected state representative and urged the legalization of gay marriage, chances are this would all turn around.

Go people!

“Iowa Supreme Court rules same-sex marriage ban violates rights of gays, lesbians” – Breaking News on MSNBC 3 April 2009

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

On this date, under Mayor Gavin Newsom, the City of San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples.

This is a day to celebrate.

I wonder, aloud of course, if the whole Prop 8 fiasco is about Gay Marriage, or more about “the other.”

We human beings are an odd lot. For whatever reason as we lose our childhood innocence and sense of wonder we start to realize that life isn’t the easiest thing in the world. There are headaches, and heartaches, and mortgages, and just when you discover that you have a favourite chair, your also start to realize that things don’t work the way they used to : staying up into the wee hours of the morning becomes a challenge, some foods that we used to eat with reckless abandon suddenly cause us problems, and our bodies ache after doing things that were oh so easy to do just a few years ago.

We long for a simpler time. When our problems didn’t exist as they do today. When life was easier, and full of promise. And our dreams have fallen away and in some cases been replaced with regrets.

It’s gotta be someone’s fault! Someone did this to us! Dammit! Who stole my dreams!

It’s so easy for us to point a finger at “the others” and make them the cause of our problems. See, “they did it,” “it’s their fault,” “if they just didn’t do that, the world be just like it was when I was 8.” It doesn’t work that way.

If things were like the way were told they were when I was 8 there wouldn’t be veterans living on streets, 20% of the children in the US would not be living in Poverty, and a new box of crayons would make me forget about all my troubles.

I am completely convinced we will see a good outcome on this. I cannot believe that unequal rights will prevail. The waters on the Sea of Enlightenment are choppy, but the boat will not sink.

State of California Attorney General Brown says Prop 8 violates basic human rights and is unconstitutional!!!!!!

Let’s see what happens now!!!