Last week, this nation did one of the most historic things it could do and I am proud to say that I got to witness the election of Barack Obama, a black man, as our 44th President. In fact, the entire election this year was going to be historic if either party was elevated to the White House. It was going to be a black man of a woman…ground breaking in either vein.
America, hurrah!
On the other hand, I am distinctly perturbed by the voting public in the state amendments. Florida, Arizona, and California voters have decided that my civil rights are not important, that I am less of a human being because of my sexual orientation. Does no one remember this same distinction of being less of a human being placed on the slaves? On black men? On women voters? I remember my history.
While the political activists of the GLBT communities protest in the streets and in front of city halls, I am looking in my history books and realizing that the culmination of each of these fight for civil rights ended in one place and one place only…the Supreme Court of the United States of America. It is there that this bullshit will end, with the Supreme Court Justices determining that the GLBT community is not the threat to the American people that they think.
Why not let my community have the word “marriage”? Who does it really threaten? With the national divorce rate reaching over 50% (higher in the state of California, mind you), who is to say that heterosexual marriage is better than a homosexual marriage? Heterosexual census takers? PLEASE! I know people on all sides of this. My parents have been married for 43 years. Michael and Kevin of QCast Connection have been together for 18 years. Rain and I have been together for 7 years. Other than having to present a durable power of attorney, why are the QCast boys and us not allowed the same civil rights of our lifetime partnerships that my mom and dad have? Why do we have to pay higher taxes because we have to file as single tax payers, even though we are in committed relationships?
America, boo!
Take this fight upward and onward, GLBT attorneys. Fight the good fight. I am not a second class citizen.
Maybe I’ll just go to Michigan with my glaucoma problem (wink, wink).
Yeah, but what do I know…
