For Christmas this year, we gave a few family and friends a Shutterfly calendar we had made. The formatting on Shutterfly doesn't allow a full story to be posted with each photo, so we will be utilizing this blog to explain our 2009 Calendar; A Year In The Life...
The Calendar Cover
This photo was taken, just a few weeks ago. On November 4, 2008 voters in the US elected a new president! What an amazing night. Jason as working at a work event and I was city at home glued to the TV with two computers running, flipping from website to website looking for the latest election news. I tracked the elector votes and several of the Senate elections on a spreadsheet, so I would know who and what at all points. By the end of the evening, I was cheering and bawling my eyes out. Total excitement.
But a few other things happened that day. Voters in California, Florida and Arizona voted against same sex marriages. Voters in Arkansas voted to deny adoption rights to any unmarried couple, gay or straight. The main issue was California. Known as Proposition 8, Prop 8 would take away the rights of same sex couples to get married. A right given to them when the states marriage protection act was deemed unconstitutional for deny rights to individuals. Therefore, earlier in 2008 gays and lesbians were granted the right to get married. On November 4, California voters took that right away. The majority voting on the rights of the minority. Not a good precedent.
So, a few days later, the GLBT community across the country, and the world took to the streets in their towns and capitals to march for marriage equality. We joined them. We joined thousands at the base of the US Capitol and marched to the White House, fighting wind and rain all the way there.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence 1776
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, Loving v. Virginia 1967
1 comment:
Hi Scott... I've been passively-aggressively searcghing for you for a while now, and am glad that I found you. What an interesting guy you've turned out to be! :) Jamie and I have always been curious about where life took you. Very glad to see that you appear happy and healthy. Take care! Laura (Oxley) Bauknecht
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