SubscribeI could try to sum up my feelings about Proposition 8, California’s ballot inititive to ban same-sex marriage, but I could never come close to articulating exactly how I feel about this topic. Fortunately, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann did it for me. He was able to put into words how I feel on this matter.
I feel strongly about this. I didn’t “choose” to be heterosexual. Why should I be able to marry the person that I love while gay people cannot? To me, it’s a civil rights issue. I’m not old enough to remember what things were like under Jim Crow. If I lived in a society where I could sit at the front of the bus, but a black person could not, I would feel extremely embarrassed and even ashamed.
That’s how I feel about marriage.
