Make Love!

I want to take a moment today to express just how proud I am of my home state.

With LA's Pride just a couple of weeks in the past and San Francisco's Pride fast approaching, I think it's only fitting that a few days ago equality rang clear in the vows of couples up and down my golden state. I'm fairly confident that everyone that takes the time to read this blog needs no preaching to on the subject of gay marriage, so let's all take a few minutes together to be thankful and renew our faith in human equality. It really touched me a few weeks ago when I read that gay marriage had been legalized, and it made me absolutely overjoyed to hear that it was, of all places, in lovely California.

Yay for love that is love. Yay for equality and understanding and celebrations. Is heterosexual love any different from homosexual love? What is it that makes a marriage a marriage? Is it the ability of the couple to procreate, is it one penis and one vagina, is it the perpetuation of heteronormative behavior? Marriage isnt about sex, it's about emotion and understanding. I have never been able to understand why certain people want to focus on the kind of sex a married couple has instead of the strength and tenacity of their union. Preserving and strengthening family is something I'm all for, but as for separating and labeling the kinds of sex in allowed in a 'marriage', i'm sorry but i'll have to pass. The government can issue all of the little slips of paper it wants, but without the love of those whose names it bears, that piece of paper is meaningless. Conservative heterosexuals cannot hold the monopoly on sanctioned love forever. It's taken over 200 years, but Separation of Church and State is finally becoming less bark and more bite. Those key words are so often left to collect dust.

Do we remember that Separate is not Equal? Today, we do.
The battle is not over, but this victory tastes divine. Now we've just got to keep on working to spread equality and love to all corners of our country, of our world. Like one big blanket of love, together we can bundle the world up and soothe our respective wounds.

Today I'm going to celebrate the beauty that is pulic recognition of private love. If you're lucky enough to be in SF, go out next week and party a little bit for me. If you're in Cali at all, I envy you. I love all you guys.

Soundtrack: God-dess and She JaDa