{"id":1760,"date":"2009-05-27T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:50:16","slug":"california-supreme-court-legalizes-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/27\/california-supreme-court-legalizes-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"California Supreme Court Legalizes Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California Supreme Court has upheld a recent statewide vote<\/a> that amended the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.\u00a0 This is the same court that only months ago ruled that any ban on gay marriage was a violation of rights.\u00a0 Their recent ruling, however, focuses on the legality of the vote to amend the constitution to rule out the possibility of same sex marriage.\u00a0 If it is legal for voters to take away the right for gay people to marry by passing a constitutional amendment, then it would be just as legal for those voters to amend the constitution to say that marriage is only between a white man and a white woman.\u00a0 That’s what California’s Supreme Court has ruled in all its wisdom.\u00a0 They have legalized rampant bigotry.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s when black people were marching for their civil rights and were attacked by white people with dogs and water cannons, well, you are the guys with the dogs or the fire hoses if you try to stop two gay men and women from marrying.<\/p>\n

Candlelight Stories opposes bigotry and fully supports the rights of gay people to marry.\u00a0 We support this completely, without equivocation or hesitation.\u00a0 It is a fundamental right, just like the right to attend school or sit at a lunch counter or ride in the front of a bus or to marry outside of one’s race or ethnic group or to vote.<\/p>\n

California was once a leader in civil rights and other social causes.\u00a0 No longer.\u00a0 It has officially stated to the world that bigotry is okay.\u00a0 Its court has upheld a bigoted group of voters who are stripping rights away from people they don’t agree with.<\/p>\n

The opposition to gay marriage is usually accompanied by enormous insecurity, fear and religious strictures against it. Religious beliefs have no business influencing the rule of law in the United States.\u00a0 The separation of church and state here should prevent this, but unfortunately it does not.\u00a0 So we see church groups funding opponents of gay marriage.\u00a0 We hear people talking about how their church tells them that being gay is immoral.\u00a0 If being gay is immoral, then it must be something someone chooses.\u00a0 It is not.\u00a0 Sexuality is built into our very being.\u00a0 It is a deep and important part of all human beings.\u00a0 In childhood we find out who we get crushes on.\u00a0 That’s how we know what we are on a sexual level.\u00a0 To try to prevent people from fully expressing this natural and glorious part of themselves is to sin against creation itself.<\/p>\n

Candlelight Stories thinks that people who oppose gay marriage and vote to ban it are deeply insecure and frightened people who have profound issues with their own sexuality to work out.<\/p>\n

Gay marriage needs its Martin Luther King or its Malcolm X.\u00a0 Bigots must be opposed and must eventually lose.\u00a0 Those trying to prevent gay marriage and vote it away will be remembered in decades to come as the hate-filled bigots of the early 21st century.\u00a0 That’s exactly what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The California Supreme Court has upheld a recent statewide vote that amended the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.\u00a0 This is the same court that only months ago ruled that any ban on gay marriage was a violation of rights.\u00a0 Their recent ruling, however, focuses on the legality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163],"tags":[424,422,425,419],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-bigotry","tag-california","tag-civil-rights","tag-gay-marriage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}