Boycott Marriage. Have you got the guts to do it.

Some of this is going to sound crass because it makes analogy to another very famous TRANSITIONAL trial. Sorry, but, this is what came to mind when I heard about the Prop 8 trial.

There is some real power being ignored within these dynamics.

Real Simple.

Don't get married until all the people, the human beings, the homo sapiens in the USA are given provision under the law to wed.

Boycott Marriage until this ends.

Do the people of the USA realize 'the economy' that surrounds marriage?

THAT is power.

Prop8 reminds me of the Scopes Trial of the 1920s.

Those in opposition to sound science were crass.

They were ignorant.

They were "W"rong.

...The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. (click here) Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only whether their behavior met the approval of their intellect. Intellectual experimentation flourished. Americans danced to the sound of the Jazz Age, showed their contempt for alcoholic prohibition, debated abstract art and Freudian theories. In a response to the new social patterns set in motion by modernism, a wave of revivalism developed, becoming especially strong in the American South. Who would dominate American culture--the modernists or the traditionalists? Journalists were looking for a showdown, and they found one in a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925....

Equality in Marriage is a civil rights issue. It has far broader implications than simply being married. To deny a segment of the USA population equality is 'setting them up' for potentially dangerous scenarios, including children. Breaking up families is wrong and to define them differently because parents are unwed due to being gay is simply asking for huge problems. The Gay Community needs equality in marriage to benefit their 'families' in status with heterosexuals. This about marriage, but, it also reaches into the rights of children as well.

Judge presses lawyers on first day of federal Prop 8 trial (click title to entry - thank you)
by Roger Brigham
EDGE San Francisco Editor
Monday Jan 11, 2010
Lawyers representing Proposition 8 opponents and supporters presented their interpretation of marriage on the opening day of the federal trial challenging the voter-approved referendum.

Attorney Theodore Olson, who represents the two same-sex couples challenging Prop 8, portrayed the case as a fight for fundamental human rights. Attorneys representing Prop 8 supporters responded only opposite sex marriage is "pro child."

"Marriage is central to life in America," Olson said in his opening statement to Northern District of California Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker. "It promotes physical and mental health. It is the building block of neighborhoods in our society. Proposition 8 ended the dream of marriage for the plaintiffs and hundreds of thousands of Californians."...