It has been a while since a I posted anything here. Personal life and projects have filled my time without much room to write or even just link post much.
I did want to share something that I think is very exciting. In the last three days I have received several emails from friends of mine in same sex relationships detailing either weddings or wedding plans in California. Seeing friends of mine elope to my home state so that they can share in basic human rights equality makes me very proud of the state I come from. And for NY, my adopted state, (that honors those licenses, while not offering them itself) I have a similar pride.
The freedom to live one’s life the way their authentic self demands is a value I hold very strongly. It is woven into the very base fabric of this country and I am pleased to see one more vestige of fear and bigotry being dissolved in the move towards universal human rights.
When the headlines hit it did not strike me the way that these emails have. Real people, finally able to live their lives they way they must. The way God and the universe created them.
Never forget, civil rights advocacy IS patriotism.
Tags: california, happy, meta
