Breaking: Proposition 8 upheld, rallies organize across the country

Your comment sounds like a backhanded insult to Iowa. Our justices in Iowa unanimously and correctly stated that Equal Protection under Law is the foundational basis for the rule of law and our form of government. Our Iowa justices understand that Equal Protection under Law is the heart of democracy itself, and without Equal Protection, democracy ends. Our state, Iowa, also has the highest rate of young people who go on to higher education (even higher than Massachusetts). So please don't disrespect our great state whose motto is "Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain." Also, remember among other great advancements, Iowa allowed interracial marriage nearly 100 years before California and Iowa was the first state to let women practice law.

When you're outside of California and outside of the USA, it's so easy to come across as patronising, even when you don't mean to be. But I really do feel for all those gay and lesbian Californians who've had to face the indignity of having their neighbours actively vote to keep them second class.

And I can't imagine what it must be like to have courts rub salt into that wound today. Those judges are so caught up in that strange web of Californian constitutional law that they're incapable of establishing equal treatment without bringing down their own system. Logic and common sense both argue for equal treatment, but the law calls for discrimmination. It's an insanely stupid situation. You don't deserve to be in it.

What can I say? I suppose the most important thing is to remind you that you're American. When Stonewall happened, it was the snapping stilleto heard around the world. Those drag queens and dispossesed gay men and lesbians showed that equality wasn't something one accepted - it's something that one fights for. And then there were the White Night riots. Those were a signal that pissed off gays and lesbians were to be taken seriously.

Across the world there were different arguments and different forms of debate over gay equality, but the Americans were there to show that iniquitous treatment could cause violence and break-ups of society. It doesn't matter whether you're a gay or straight American, you take equality seriously.

I wouldn't presume to tell an American how to act in the face of this indignity heaped on your heads but whatever you do it'll be supported.

wish I had known about this before hand, but still great to see! 

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