This is what we are fighting for. We have created a mission statement to help stear our cause and keep the conversation going.
Please view our other posts as well:
Prop 8 Protest: A Call to the LGBTQ Community, Friends, & Family
This is what we are fighting for. We have created a mission statement to help stear our cause and keep the conversation going.
Please view our other posts as well:
Prop 8 Protest: A Call to the LGBTQ Community, Friends, & Family
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Thank you for the mission statement!
I’m hoping that all of our rallies are celebrations of civil rights and not mobs or politically expeditious speechifying events.
A golden thread will connect us all, at the same time, in the same spirit.
Equal, CIVIL rights for all!
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am
JoinTheImpact.com would like us to coordinate with them on a national level by marching THIS SATURDAY November 15, 2008 starting at 10:30am. We will be gathering before 10:30am and marching to a rally where we will continue to show support for marriage equality.
THIS IS A PEACEFUL PROTEST. NO VIOLENCE WILL BE TOLERATED. The San Diego police will be informed of our intent to protest, and the protest will follow legal guidelines. We will not be taken seriously if we resort to violence. Please help keep our protest peaceful.
Invite your friends, invite our allies. There is strength in numbers! Please check this page for updates throughout the week and please check http://www.jointheimpact.com for national updates.
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Hi friends!
We are well on our way to building a great march, a great rally. To recap, here’s the information:
We will meet at 6th and Upas and march downtown, past City Hall, and to the rally site. Rally site and march route will be determined tomorrow and announced. We will rally at the rally site with speakers and more information about how to stay involved.
There are a few things I could certainly use from you all as a community though!
#1 — We need to increase our population on Facebook. This can be done by joining this event and RSVP’ing. Then you can help further by inviting other people to join. You can also invite people who are not on Facebook by using their email address!
#2 — Please get out the word about this protest and march, and the rally that will follow. Please use text messaging, fliers, emails, instant messages, and other forms of communication to contact your friends, your gym teachers, your neighbor from the 3rd grade, that guy you went to prom with, and anyone else that is a supporter of equal rights for all! I suggest sending this text message:
“Hey, we’re rallying for equal rights in San Diego on Sat. Nov. 15, at 10am, at 6th and Upas! Pass it on!”
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
THIS IS TRUE! I hope the USA finally figures things out, and that the LDS church figures out that WE didn’t get a say in THEIR marriages, why should THEY get a saying on OURS?!
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I had similar feelings- so happy that Obama won the presidential election, so horrified and ashamed that Prop 8 won in California- I am bisexual woman in Opp-sex marriage, and both I and my spouse voted NO on prop 8. I am going to try to make it to the rally/demo on Saturday Nov. 15, if feeling well. A close friend of mine recently married her partner, and we witnessed the lovely ceremony, and I don’t know what will happen with that marriage or the marriage of my other friend from grad school.
Gayl
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Status report! We here in Austin, TX are finally seeing ALL posts (at least up to this one). Keep up the good work, fight the good fight, etc.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Love the mission statement and the sentiments it expresses! Just a quick spelling thing: “We will encourage our community to not let anger stear the conversation…” This should probably be “steer…”
Will be at the protest in Chicago!
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
My partner and I have been together for over 25 years, longer than a lot of straight “marriages” and yet we can still not be married in Minnesota. It is a disgrace.
We back your site 110%.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
This is very interesting to me. Okay, so I have been posting many bulletins on MySpace about prop 8 rally information for the last couple of weeks. So today I posted some more this morning about locations to gather and they have mysteriously disappeared. So I decided to post another bulletin and nothing. Now if this is a system glitch, why are other people able to post bulletins about everything else other than Prop 8? It seems like others who’ve posted info about Prop 8 are also experiencing this problem. Is MySpace having issues with us expressing our point of views? Are they trying to stop us from spreading the word? I don’t know. I do remember seeing ads on MySpace regarding Yes on 8. Makes me think? Maybe we should look into this!? What yall think? I have expressed my views on my headliner and hope they don’t cancel my page for saying this.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I support your campaign 100% I was very shocked when I heard the verdict in Calif I even went as far as e-mailing my family and friends in California to support me and my future wife and vote no on Prop 8. I live in Las Vegas Nevada, the “Marrige Capital” of the world, well I guess you can leave this couple out of it, we can’t even get married in our own state, it’s pretty sad that if your straight you can put down a few dollars and go to the courthouse here in Nevada get your license, pick out the chapel of your choice and no one out here bats a eye, but If you a Lesbian couple you lived in this state, paid taxes, and voted you still can’t marry your partner I don’t understand it. We have been together for four years next year is our fifth anniversary, we wanted to celebrate buy saying our vows in California and share the same rights as the rest of our GLBT family, but that was shut down because of this. We have been keeping up with the news in Los Angeles, and now I hope that the courts will appeal this and give us a chance to show that we want the same rights as everyone else. I have given information to many of my gay friends across the country to spread the word and fight discrimination.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
does it make sense to have some groups peel off the large urban protests and help bring up the numbers for some of the smaller, outlying protests?
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
@Sakuya_baby on support of the LDS church for CA Prop 8: Yes indeed, particularly in view of the fact that the LDS (Mormon) record on marriage has long been tarnished by not only its history of multiple marriage permitted men, but also its past and current record of oppression of women in their church. Interestingly, both practices are also engaged in by some radical Muslim sects.
Hm. What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I am among those Californians who voted against Prop. 8 and was saddened by the outcome of the election on this matter. As an attorney I have a visceral dislike for discrimination and I feel strongly that the equal protection argument will win out in the end.
Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I am a straight married woman. This video brought me to tears. The passage of Prop 8 is just dead wrong and I will fight this sort of bigotry any way I can.
I’ll be there on Nov.15!
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 12:04 am
the video was really moving but i think we need to be careful to target a broad audience and be mindful of the images we present. what about the fact that all of the couples features were white, given that a lot of yes on 8 voters were nonwhite? we need to show our opponents that this struggle cuts across every boundary of race, class, location…
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I am a straight person living in california who is not a citizen of USA. In spite of this, it is shameful that some of the rights I enjoy here cannot even be dreamt by people living with same sex partners. If American dream is a real thing, then this law should not be passed. It is shocking that the state which voted for Obama has now voted for Prop 8. Hopefully people can come out of their religious beliefs and use their morality and rationality to make a decision.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 2:53 am
We just need to be happy with civil unions. I don’t understand the hubbub over marriage.
Marriage = Religious
Civil Unions = Gays
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 3:14 am
That was a beautiful and very moving piece. I would agree on the need to have more than just white folks, since we are talking about people of the rainbow! I’ll be at my local rally and will bring my kids w/me-this cannot stand. I voted against this and was sure it would not pass. We watched the numbers coming in and were in shock. It is unfair that a church from another state can use their $ to essentially legislate what is ok or not in *our* state!
As a straight Christian woman, I feel I must really apologize for all the wacko angry Christians who have been so hurtful to the LGBT community. We’re not all like that! I think they skimmed the parts of the bible where Jesus commanded us to defend the oppressed, the widow, the poor, or how he even associated w/prostitutes and lepers and even worse, tax collectors! Well…that leaves….Hmmm…I guess they must have skipped the New Testament all together !
He loves all of us, rich or poor, white or black, gay or straight, Americans or Iraqis, Christian or atheist, etc. We as a people took a step forward when we elected our first President who is a person of color, then took a step backward in repudiating the civil rights of another group of people. =0(
I saw a tiny group of people with a sign saying Jesus hates homosexuality before the election…(Jesus said nothing about homosexuality but that’s beside my point.) Anyway, I used it as a lesson for my kids while we waited at the light next to them. I explained that God doesn’t like hate but wants us to love our neighbors, and that people with such hate and anger in their hearts are not true believers. It’s trite but Jesus is love, and you cannot hold two opposite and mutually exclusive beliefs in your heart. Jesus vs hate, judgment, discrimination, intimidation, with a thin veneer of Christianity for camouflage, it’s one or the other. Paul’s letters say that you can know someone by their “fruits.” If a person spends their time working hard to discriminate against another & take away their fundamental human right to marry whom they choose…well their “fruit” is rotten to the core. I will be praying for safety, acceptance, and success for all those protesting.
Mark 7:6-7 (NKJV)
6He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
“This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
7And in vain they worship Me,
****Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’****
Homophobia and Prop 8 are commandments of men, not God.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Linsey there is a great video at refusetohate.com equating the LGBT movement with the civil rights movement.
It has an embed code if you want to watch!
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 6:52 am
We (San Francisco’s GLBTQ2QASSI… Community) are with you 1,000%. As the newly founded Coalition for NO (H)8, We are the local grassroots leaders that will keep the dignity while making our voices known.
We are organizing Peaceful Marches, Demonstrations (civil and responsibly disobedient), Candlelight Vigils, and Rallies to inform, open dialogue, allow proactive diatribes, and Continue the Fight for our Rights that Saint Harvey Milk started 30+ years ago in San Francisco’s Castro District.
Please be assured that we JOIN THE IMPACT to show the world we are cognizant of our role and are in agreement with this action.
We are extremely angry at the originators of this indignity and believe that the contractual division of Church and State has been breached.
We will not allow this to continue and will halt any further actions against our given California Constitutional Rights (May 15, 2008 – In re Marriage Cases (2008) 43 Cal.4th 757 [76 Cal.Rptr.3d 683, 183 P.3d 384]).
Our Town Hall Meeting is at the following:
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Veterans’ War Memorial Building
401 Van Ness Avenue (@ McAllister)
6:30 PM
In solidarity,
Respectfully submitted by
Rick Le Blanc, Prince Imperial XIV & Saint to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 7:59 am
It is time for activists in the gay community to start framing the marriage issue as first and foremost a civil rights issue – this is the only way to sideline the religious angle from the debate and open the eyes of so many religious people who would otherwise be against the type of discrimination in measures like Proposition 8. I am talking about pictures of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and parallels between the illegal interracial marriages of the past and the attempts to legislate such bigotry into state constitutions today. John Stuart Mill and our own James Madison understood the dangers of the “tyranny of the majority” – the rights of a minority should not be left solely to the will of the majority; this is not the kind of ideal our country was built on. I am convinced that good religious people across America will relate to gay rights as a civil rights issue, but until it is framed as such, religion will keep these same people from seeing it that way.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 9:07 am
My husband and I were married last June in Canada and would love to feel as welcome in our own country as we did in there. I wish we could be there on the 15th to help the cause, but even though we won’t be able, our thoughts and prayers will be.
Thanks to all who will be standing up for our community!
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
One more voice to add to hope.
From Columbus Ohio. I believe to each their own. The passage of prop 8 in California has prompted me to say aloud that I would be in support of same sex marriage. I have no reason to discuss it without the issue in California drawing national attention. I came across an e-mail suggesting a local rally and linked my way to this discussion. I cared enough to share. The pain of defeat may bring bystanders to speak against injustice. Sorry for the loss to those affected.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Like Emily, I am a straight, married woman, and I could not control my tears while watching this video. I volunteered for the No on 8 campaign and will continue to donate my time and money to fighting for equality for everyone and seeing that gay marriage is finally allowed in our state and our country. This is not “just a gay issue.” This is a human rights issue, and I am devastated that there are people out there who view my coworkers, family members, and close friends as second-class citizens. My husband and I are actually pretty embarrassed to be part of the “institution of marriage” right now, but we will keep fighting for the rights of everyone in this country. We will be there on Saturday!
Thank you to everyone who has shared a story on this site.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I am taking steps to get the Marriage Amendment which was passed in Texas in 2005 repealed, because the House passed it illegally.
Several of the House members had connections with private organizations, or had religious beliefs which effected their vote. They violated Article 3, Section 22 of the Texas Constitution.
My phone number is 210-913-5138 for anyone who lives in Texas. If you don’t live here, but know someone who does, contact them or me.
Posted on November 14th, 2008 at 2:20 am
For the record, I am straight. I do not feel like that matters in this case. I am standing up for rights of others – of loved ones & of those I do not know. I believe in equality & will be joining several like – minded individuals to get the word out tomorrow.
Posted on November 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I was reading about people protesting the Mormons, talking about boycotting Sundance, etc. But I came up with a better, more effective way to deal with the situation than choking off Utah: flooding Utah with gay money.
Gay couples should vacation in Utah in droves.
* Gay travel agencies should sponsor discounted gay-themed ski vacations to Utah ski resorts.
Gay people should start attending Mormon and Catholic services.
* At the very least it will get two disparate groups that normally don’t communicate together and talking – “convert me, I dare you”, basically.
Gay people should start relocating to snowy vacation towns in Utah.
* Many of the conservative families in Utah have never met a gay person. If you are gay – introduce them to one!
Three things will happen:
1) the Utah brand-identity will receive a massive cash infusion that will be inexorably tied to the homosexual community
2) Utah will become a whole lot gayer
3) the money will cause Utah to even further distance themselves from the Mormon Church.
Bingo!
Posted on November 14th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Nice video ACLU! <3 <3 <3
Posted on November 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I…along with many..(hopefully a few thousand)..will be protesting in downtown St. Petersburg, FL tomorrow.
I will be protesting in the name of LOVE.
All my best to everyone in this quest for equality…..but more importantly…LOVE.
Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Sending you all my love, hugs and support from a tiny island in Southeast Asia.
Fight the good fight, and all the very best!!
Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Bob says:
November 13th, 2008 at 3:14 am
We just need to be happy with civil
unions. I don’t understand the hubbub over marriage.
Marriage = Religious
Civil Unions = Gays
Well, then have the government change the term marriage into civil union and let religion keep the term marriage within their church (BUT NOT IN THE LAW). That’s fine too. The problem is right now that marriage is NOT the same as a civil union. The point is that these families are not afforded the same legal protections as others when they are just as much of a family as any other. So under the law, either we all have marriages, or we all have civil unions. Either way if it DOES provide the same legal protections (afforded by the constitution) then so be it.
Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
My partner and I have been together for over 25 years, longer than a lot of straight “marriages” .We are legally married for a year and 4 months now in South Africa.You people deserve the same rights as straight Americans. FIGHT FOR IT. We think of all of you during this difficult time
Posted on November 16th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I am enlightened a little and although I admit the law may restrict the gay community in some ways, and I was moved by the woman in the ACLU video, I believe it is a question of why there are different rights for marrieds. Maybe there should be no laws for marriage, for or against. Maybe the fight should be with changing the laws, I don’t know. I do know that if our government would stay out of our lives instead of trying to add and subtract from our basic constitutional rights, we might be able to get along much better. So, in another way to state it, I’m heterosexual and don’t want a homosexual telling me how we all should live, therefore, maybe our laws should not tell any of us how to live.
The end result though by being in rebellion to God is a curse upon our society. Curses and blessings are very real whether you see them or not. Again, the “few” state good ideas, the government makes a law, the law gets twisted and misused by the vast minority of the few, which makes it hard for the majority of all to live with. It really is that simple. God Bless all of us, no exceptions! God is love, and is a bit exclusionary, my heart goes out to those who are oppressed by the law. Jesus is Grace not law. Religion is not God and God is not religion. God does have a certain order for which we are to follow. When we choose not to, He does not punish us, however; He can’t come near us as He would like to. Only we hold the keys to blessings. I pray that all on this site will understand that immaculate love before the last breath here on earth. Love is the answer.
Posted on November 17th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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