“California’s domestic partnership law, as well as statutory bans on discrimination based on marital status and sexual orientation, already requires businesses to provide virtually the same state-regulated benefits to gay couples on their payrolls as they do to employees who are in opposite-sex unions.” (LA Times, 3/18/08)
This is why I suggested in an earlier comment that I believe that there is more afoot here that “acceptance” by the public. In another LA Times article, Chief Justice Ronald M. George makes the connection (or should I say the LA Times reporter) with this case to that of the plight of Blacks who also sought for acceptance in this country.
But as he read the legal arguments, the 68-year-old moderate Republican was drawn by memory to a long ago trip he made with his European immigrant parents through the American South. There, the signs warning “No Negro” or “No colored” left “quite an indelible impression on me,” he recalled in a wide-ranging interview Friday. (source)
While I do agree that all people should be created the same as defined in the 14th amendment…
“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
…equating the treatment of gays in this country today to that of Blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South is beyond a stretching of the truth–it is an outright lie.
Here is another example from the LA Times–
The subtitle of this particular article says the following:
“For Jim Smith and Frank Reifsnyder, the ban on gay marriage was another example of gays and lesbians being treated ‘as less than human.’”
Now check out the living conditions of these individuals who feel that society treats them “less than human”
He and his partner, Frank Reifsnyder, have been a couple for 10 years. They have graduate degrees and lucrative careers and a beautiful Spanish colonial home in Toluca Lake, with fountains and tiled terraces and vaulted ceilings with hand-hewn beams. They have 14-month-old twins, Milo and Kaylee, whom they adore. (source)
Should I now post the living conditions of my parents who lived in the Jim Crow south? Nevermind (my parents were the ones that would clean places like this while taking care of Milo and Kaylee)!
IMO, this has less to do with public acceptance (because those that are pushing for this policy already know that polling data has consistently been against them), but more to do with redefining marriage itself.
I’ll have much more to say on this issue in the days ahead.
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Quick factoid on the same-sex marriage issue here in CA
by Duane on May 19th, 2008 at 11:51 am“California’s domestic partnership law, as well as statutory bans on discrimination based on marital status and sexual orientation, already requires businesses to provide virtually the same state-regulated benefits to gay couples on their payrolls as they do to employees who are in opposite-sex unions.” (LA Times, 3/18/08)
This is why I suggested in an earlier comment that I believe that there is more afoot here that “acceptance” by the public. In another LA Times article, Chief Justice Ronald M. George makes the connection (or should I say the LA Times reporter) with this case to that of the plight of Blacks who also sought for acceptance in this country.
While I do agree that all people should be created the same as defined in the 14th amendment…
…equating the treatment of gays in this country today to that of Blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South is beyond a stretching of the truth–it is an outright lie.
Here is another example from the LA Times–
The subtitle of this particular article says the following:
“For Jim Smith and Frank Reifsnyder, the ban on gay marriage was another example of gays and lesbians being treated ‘as less than human.’”
Now check out the living conditions of these individuals who feel that society treats them “less than human”
Should I now post the living conditions of my parents who lived in the Jim Crow south? Nevermind (my parents were the ones that would clean places like this while taking care of Milo and Kaylee)!
IMO, this has less to do with public acceptance (because those that are pushing for this policy already know that polling data has consistently been against them), but more to do with redefining marriage itself.
I’ll have much more to say on this issue in the days ahead.
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