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It is a sad day in California. Following an historic day where we celebrated Barack Obama’s election as the 44th president of the United States and were challenged to prepare for the road ahead. I didn’t expect this road to begin here and now, but it has.

Proposition eight, a California State Constitutional amendment, has passed by a slender margin, thus revoking the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender (or same sex couples) to get married in our state. This is unconstitutional, and wrong. Morally wrong.

Because it’s wrong to withhold the rights of human beings based on bias, prejudice or ignorance, I believe that this proposition will inevitably fail. It’s only a mater of time. But because it’s wrong, and the right thing to do is to include all people by granting them the right to marry into unions which will provide all the liberties of committed couples in property, visitation, custody, divorce and separation claims, health care, pensions, inheritance, and all rights and privileges associated with such partnerships we have to begin our work together today.

Please sign the petition, already well under way, to re open proposition 8 and give California a chance, without the influence and millions of dollars from out of state special interest groups, to do what’s right for everyone.

Here is a link to this petition

Can you imagine if your civil rights were stripped from you?
What if you were unable to visit your husband in the hospital because you had red hair, or because you were white? Consider this fact, without the bias of your fear or religious beliefs, and you can easily see why this is wrong, and all efforts to strip anyone of their civil rights is wrong, and will fail in the end.

Let’s end it now.