In San Jose, California, couple Lisa Kirk, left, and Lena Brancatelli react to the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on gay marriage. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Look at the two photos above. They were taken Wednesday immediately after the U.S Supreme Court (picture at left) made two major decisions for same-sex couples, striking down DOMA, and rejecting a bid by anti-gay people to ban gay marriages in California. Look into the faces of the people in these pictures. Look at how much those two decisions meant to them. Look at how much simple equality means to them.
Now ask yourselves why anybody feels they have the right to hurt them. Ask yourselves why anybody feels they have a right to dictate the parameters of their love. Ask yourself what difference does it make to them if the couples in these photos get married and live happily ever after, with the same benefits hetero couples have. Ask yourselves why superstitious anti-LGBT people attribute their bigotry and hate and discriminatory actions to a god that remains silent . . .
I know the answers to all of those questions, and I bet most of my regular readers do, too.
I could have posted 10,000 such photos in my photo gallery on Wednesday (Same-sex marriage: Tears of joy in the U.S.). And then 10,000 more . . . and more . . . and more . . . I urge you to go back and take a look at the photos there, at the faces of people who only want equality . . .
Jillian
