Today is a good day!

Today is a good day!  Today is a day better than most.  The Federal Appeals Court struck down prop. 8 as unconstitutional. 

As I sit here I am shaking my head a bit.  Yes, it's about time but what I really don't get is why this is such a fight.

I know that 52% of Californians voted that they believe marriage is between a man and a woman.  I also know that years ago I myself voted that way in Nevada.  But I was wrong.

How is it my right to say that a black woman and a white man can not be married.  Yet that is exactly what people said when Richard and Mildred Loving married in 1958.

How is it my right to say that a black woman must sit in the back of the bus.  Yet that is exactly what people said when Rosa Parks refused to move in 1955.

How is this fight any different?  The point is....it's NOT!

These are civil rights issues.  These are issues based in and around the fact that we as human beings have rights.

Did many of our Founding Fathers own slaves?  Yes.  Was it right?  No.  Times change.  Beliefs change.  People change. 

No one is asking for a new set of rules.  They are simply asking that the rules be applied evenly.

I pray that one day I can watch my son and the love of his life be married.  I love them both and I realize that it is as much their right to live a committed loving relationship as it is his father and mine!

One day at a time, one step at a time, one victory at a time until we are all free!