# (6) 04 Nov 2008, 07:49AM: Election Day:
I feel obligated to repost this regarding California's Proposition 8:
Post this on your blog if you're in an opposite-sex marriage and you don't want it to be "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage cheapens or hurts it somehow.
Yes, I have been for same-sex marriage for some time and still am.
How decadent, how arrogant, how unloving, how wasteful we are to act as though we have enough loving partnerships and families! As though we can afford to spurn aspirants. How long should they wait? My in-laws might especially be interested in Mormons for Marriage and a pro-life Mormon for Obama.
In a circumstance beating our previous record of three, we have been invited to four different parties on the same night celebrating the same event, not to mention the Making Light virtual party.
Now, to try to work.
I just pulled the lever for Obama, literally [photos]. Leonard suggested we get up by 6 so we could avoid the lines, but we ended up in line for about half an hour. Still a good idea.
Sumana: Don't forget to bring money for the poll tax.
Leonard: Yeah, let me make sure I can read.
I say to those opponents of same-sex marriage: If you care about the stability and happiness of the American family, then work to subsidize daycare, lengthen paternal and maternal leave and move us to single-payer healthcare. If you care about the sanctity of marriage, then work to institute a federal waiting period and separate the civil contract of marriage from your religion's requirements and ceremonies. Widows, grandparents, uncles, nannies, foster children, step-parents and same-sex partners all contribute to and sustain households everywhere.
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