I know I am a few days late in the whole DOMA, Prop 8 excitement. So lets start out with how unbelievably excited and happy I am to be a part of a state that now recognizes gay marriage. Soon throughout the country it wont be called gay marriage, it will just be marriage. I am so so so happy that I now have the right to marry any women I want to. I went to bed tuesday with that right being taken away, and woke up wednesday morning with that right given back to me, and to all my LGBT friends.
Our children will one day ask us, did you really have to go through the persecution and a time of inequality for your sexual orientation. And our generation will tell our kids, nieces, nephews, etc, that WE stood up for our rights to love who we love even when it was tough. That kids, teens, young adults, were killing themselves because of their sexuality, and we stood up and said enough was enough. WE fought for equality, and fought for our rights as humans to not make any more of these people feel the only way to deal with their sexuality was death. WE made a difference in our long long fight for our rights. WE didnt back down when our peers, or even worse our family persecuted us for our choices. WE stood our ground when family, friends, coworkers, the media, told us we were immoral, that we were the abominations. (450 species practice homosexuality, only one has homophobia...who are the abominations now?)
Wednesday was a historical day for California, and a big step for our nation to one day get gay marriage legal on a national scale. It is an ongoing battle, but for now GOOD BYE PROP HATE, DOMA is gone forever!
