Damn. The Question 1 fight in Maine is turning out to be a real squeaker. So I’m posting a link here to the Courage Campaign Equality Program.
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/content/321CountdownForEquality/
There are ways to help campaign to save same sex marriage in Maine and show that there are places where a majority of the people understand the need to defend the rights of others as well as their own rights. To borrow from John Donne:
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
So too the rights of all. I am straight and happily married. No one in my immediate family is a same sex relationship or lives in Maine. I have no personal stake in the outcome.
Except that I am not truly free unless all are free. Any person’s oppression diminishes me, because I am involved in humankind. And while I have no delusion that I shall see the end of injustice, cruelty or oppression until the End of Days that does not absolve me of my duty to do all I can, when I can, how I can.
Stay tuned . . . .
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Harold,
I’m happy to see this post from you. I agree with your position.
I too am a straight & happily married man with nobody in my immediate family in a same-sex relationship, and I don’t live in Maine.
But I think it’s important for all of us to show our support for our brothers & sisters seeking marriage equality in Maine.
My wife’s and my best friends are a married (in MA) lesbian couple. They are the sweetest, most devoted couple I know. It breaks my heart that some people are intent on casting them asunder.