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About the same-gender issue of being united
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/from-harvey-milk-to-the-white-house-gay-marriage-evolutions/2012/05/22/gIQAO3jzhU_blog.html
I was still a teenager, pretty much on my own in San Francisco, when I volunteered for the Milk campaign. I also marched until dawn and actively took part in demonstrations after the assassination of Mayor Moscone and Councilman Milk. I have since volunteered with Clive Smith, a dear companion of Harvey's (and I do not feel at all awkward in using his first name.) I watched the quilt project overseen by Clive go from a small U-Haul trailer to 2 semi-trucks when it went to Washington, D.C. There's a lot more history in the last 35 years I have experienced and been actively involved with.
So, when my about to turn 21 nephew broached his anger about the lack of intense focus on LGBTQ suicide and cited the massive amounts of money being spent on the "same sex marriage" issue, I sat down to listen. Why not? He like others here are the future of the community so many have suffered and even died to get to where it is today.
I believe Harvey would have as well. Further, that as the firey yet pragmatic figure he was, he would not insist that one word be necessarily used to describe the union of two people of same gender as "marriage".
So I listen to my nephew, who loves Latin. When he told me his rationale, pretty much summed up above, as said unions being both human and legal rights and suggested the use of "matrimony" (from Latin, "matrimonium" meaning "marriage") and further that under the legal context, the system still uses Latin for most processes ("nolo contendre" = "no contest" etc.) Well, I would bet Harvey would jump at the concept to say, "OK, we won't call it "marriage" but instead use "matrimony"."
My nephew is also a Christian (who goes so far as to challenge "Gay Christians" and ask, "You put sex before Savior?" ) and he is firm as he is sincere in stating, "Marriage law already exists. One man, one woman like mother and father from where I come. It (is a) Holy rite. Matrimony for same gender attracted persons (should be) a human and legal right."
I am now in complete agreement with him, especially to the point of the millions of dollars being spent on this issue, being rather simply resolved by the changing of one word. When he pointed me to "wegiveadamn.org" and showed me where youth suicide ranks on their issues (#6) I joine him in his outrage.
Now I when I get back home to The City, I'm bringing this up and quickly to get help bring this issue to resolution, in a manner that cannot be disputed under our Constitution.
PM me if you are interested in joining this effort, or helping to stop the tragic loss of life by youth suicide.
If you are a young person in crisis, go now: http://www.thetrevorproject.org or out of country, please visit the links on the page of Toby19, http://www.gayboystube.com/user/Toby19
First, the NAACP citing it to be a "civil" right lessens what it should be recognized as globally: a HUMAN right. Homosexuality is a human condition, not meaning it is a disease or illness but as in simply existing in the flesh.
In the United States,
I was still a teenager, pretty much on my own in San Francisco, when I volunteered for the Milk campaign. I also marched until dawn and actively took part in demonstrations after the assassination of Mayor Moscone and Councilman Milk. I have since volunteered with Clive Smith, a dear companion of Harvey's (and I do not feel at all awkward in using his first name.) I watched the quilt project overseen by Clive go from a small U-Haul trailer to 2 semi-trucks when it went to Washington, D.C. There's a lot more history in the last 35 years I have experienced and been actively involved with.
So, when my about to turn 21 nephew broached his anger about the lack of intense focus on LGBTQ suicide and cited the massive amounts of money being spent on the "same sex marriage" issue, I sat down to listen. Why not? He like others here are the future of the community so many have suffered and even died to get to where it is today.
I believe Harvey would have as well. Further, that as the firey yet pragmatic figure he was, he would not insist that one word be necessarily used to describe the union of two people of same gender as "marriage".
So I listen to my nephew, who loves Latin. When he told me his rationale, pretty much summed up above, as said unions being both human and legal rights and suggested the use of "matrimony" (from Latin, "matrimonium" meaning "marriage") and further that under the legal context, the system still uses Latin for most processes ("nolo contendre" = "no contest" etc.) Well, I would bet Harvey would jump at the concept to say, "OK, we won't call it "marriage" but instead use "matrimony"."
My nephew is also a Christian (who goes so far as to challenge "Gay Christians" and ask, "You put sex before Savior?" ) and he is firm as he is sincere in stating, "Marriage law already exists. One man, one woman like mother and father from where I come. It (is a) Holy rite. Matrimony for same gender attracted persons (should be) a human and legal right."
I am now in complete agreement with him, especially to the point of the millions of dollars being spent on this issue, being rather simply resolved by the changing of one word. When he pointed me to "wegiveadamn.org" and showed me where youth suicide ranks on their issues (#6) I joine him in his outrage.
Now I when I get back home to The City, I'm bringing this up and quickly to get help bring this issue to resolution, in a manner that cannot be disputed under our Constitution.
PM me if you are interested in joining this effort, or helping to stop the tragic loss of life by youth suicide.
If you are a young person in crisis, go now: http://www.thetrevorproject.org or out of country, please visit the links on the page of Toby19, http://www.gayboystube.com/user/Toby19
First, the NAACP citing it to be a "civil" right lessens what it should be recognized as globally: a HUMAN right. Homosexuality is a human condition, not meaning it is a disease or illness but as in simply existing in the flesh.
In the United States,
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