California Supreme Court upholds Prop 8
I don’t know what to say, it’s all too painful to talk about. Besides, Keith Olbermann said it better than I could back in November.
Thank you, California, and your people, your court, your government and your churches. Without you I could have forgotten that nothing guarantees justice. Nothing. Neither courts nor constitutions, not promises or even laws can ever assure us that justice will prevail. Unless we are ever vigilant, and unfailing in our efforts to make it happen, then justice will fail. It’s opponents are legion, and never before have I seen them so clearly as in the breathtaking victory they won on behalf of narrow-mindedness and fear.
Bravo, California! I once dreamed of going to you, on a kind of coming-out pilgrimage to the Castro. But now, you make me proud that I live as far from you as possible.