As change begins to happen in this country and we begin to band together as a people, we need to move beyond tolerance.
We need to move into acceptance and respect.
I really admire the same-sex couples who appeared on the news this morning and expressed their happiness that the voting on Proposition 8 was even close and that they can still walk away with a moral victory. But as a straight man who’s lived in San Francisco his whole life, I know that there was nothing moral about Yes on Prop 8 and I am extremely disappointed in California as a whole.
Inter-racial couples in certain states had to wait until 1967 for the US Supreme Court to give them the right to marry. I like to think we've come a lot farther in over 40 years. Same-sex couples shouldn’t have to wait for their case to move all the way up to that same court. We should’ve come far enough as a progressive state to vote for equality ourselves. We shouldn’t have to wait for 9 judges to tell us what we should think is morally right.
And did anyone notice that on Nov. 4th, news reports were released stating that ABC removed homosexual plot lines from Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty for undisclosed reasons.
Who knows. may be the Harvey Milk and Bruno Movies will help open more people's minds to the issue.
Change will eventually come for everyone. Hopefully, it’s sooner than later.
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