Gay Marriage and PDX Pride

This weekend is the Pride Celebration for PDX, makes me ponder about our many struggles, and those still to be won. I wonder at what point will we be truly equal by law? The fight must continue!! I strongly believe the Gay Community needs to get behind Ted Olson and David Boies. These are the lawyers from the original Bush and Gore team from 2000. I listened to them, and they make sense. It’s a pure legal question that needs to be brought before the United States Supreme Court. It is not a state by state issue. It is fundamental rights issue that can not be taken down by a proposition. Could you imagine if a proposition passed that denied mixed race people the right to marry? It would be thrown out as unconstitutional. What’s the difference? Both have some loose interpretation in the bible about it being ungodly like. I also believe it’s a pure and simply unconstitutional to ban same sex marriage base on separation of Church and State. President Obama said that the Government should not be in the marriage business when he was asked if he supported Gay Marriage. I say to him, than get the Government out of it. Only Civil unions should be recognized by the Government, and it would be up to the couples to have it recognized by their place of worship. It’s time for the United States to join the 21st Century and stop allowing open bigotry towards Gay people.

Mike