...to read the court opinion of Judge Vaughn Walker who wrote the clear-eyed California Prop 8 decision.
( https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/ )
As a bi-racial man, and reputed to be intelligent, he should be able to see the parallel between the denial of marriage equality to gays and lesbians and denial of the same marriage right to interracial couples that was in effect prior to Loving v. Virginia, 1967. I'm speaking of Barack Obama.
At one time, the marriage of Obama's parents was illegal in 16 American states and, in addition, he was born in 1961 when such laws were still in effect. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation )
Just as religion and moral disapproval based on racial inheritance was used to keep a certain minority of American citizens from the right of free association, so are these private opinions still being used to keep gay citizens from one of the basic human rights--the right of freely marrying the consenting adult of one's choice.
http://tinyurl.com/36gao78
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