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Maureen Walsh, Republican state senator from Walla Walla, remarks on ESSB 6239
Listen to her beautiful words on the floor of the Washington Senate Tue during that legislative body’s debate over marriage equality.
The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is our own mind, by preying on the doubts and uncertainties that already lurk there.
Are we true to ourselves, or do we live for the expectations of others?
And if we are open and honest, can we ever truly be loved?
Can we find the courage to release our deepest secrets, or in the end are we all unknowable… even to ourselves?
The sun goes down, the stars come out.
And all that counts, is here and now.
My universe will never be the same.
You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work… Fuck that. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.
You don’t have to take pictures of you two in bed (obviously after a sex session) and say ‘So tired’. Or press timer on your digital camera and run to whoever you’re dating to take a ‘candid’ kiss picture. I’m tired of people treating relationships like a damn trophy, like the person [they are] dating is some victory. Half the time their relationship is solely based on a physical attraction. Because really that’s all it is nowadays. All these people deemed ‘hot’ or ‘popular’ have the personality of my door stop. Yet, everyone wants them, while the people that have personality and heart are shut out. We all know thats why they take those tacky ass couple pictures, to show off their little trophy. It seriously is pathetic.
That.
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A federal appellate court is limited to the record before it. It cannot make decisions based on outside information or anything not raised at trial. The court also has to approve factual findings unless they are “clearly erroneous,” and while George Rekers and Tony Perkins and their ilk might disagree with the findings, the findings are certainly not “clearly erroneous” and there is no evidence to suggest they are. A positive Ninth Circuit decision, then, will not only affirm a right to marry under federal law, but it will affirm these facts and conclusions we all know to be true as a matter of federal law, and these facts can be used in other gay rights cases.
This is the main reason why Perry v. Brown is so important, and why we should thank AFER, its leadership, and its legal team for the progress they are making on behalf of all gay persons. No hypothetical ballot initiative to overturn Prop 8 — even if successful! — could help every other gay rights matter like a positive Ninth Circuit decision in Perry could. Advocates would have circuit court precedent for the true equality of gay people as a matter of fact and law, and that would play well in cases related to the Defense of Marriage Act, adoption and surrogacy, employment discrimination, federal benefits for gay service members, anti-harassment laws, and so on.
Trust is a difficult thing, whether its finding the right people to trust, or trusting the right people will do the wrong thing. But trusting your heart is the riskiest thing. In the end, the only person we can truly trust is ourself.