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[primroseburrows]

Somebody try and tell me how this is anything but wonderful.

The pages take a while to load, especially for dialup, but look at all of them. Spend time on the pictures of the kids and the wedding with Gramma with her walker looking on, and tell me you don't get just a little bit teary.

History is being made, and I'm thrilled to be watching it.

As much as I love Massachusetts (it's my home state!), and celebrate what they've done, it's only fitting that San Francisco should take the ball and run with it.

Oh, Harvey, you must be overcome with joy. *Dances like Snoopy*

Thanks to titti for the link.

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[patchfire.livejournal.com]

The country wasn't ready for integration when it happened. But it had to happen, and acceptance followed. There's a 1946 Supreme Court opinion I've seen quoted recently, and I can't find the reference, but it essentially says that civil rights are not under the purview of voters, to protect people from the tyranny of the majority.

MLK Jr. said it well. Just put in 'homophobia' for 'segregation.' "We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is not the time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregatio to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."

Forgive the long quote, but it makes the point well. Segregation would still be alive and well in many parts of the US if not for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Wait. Actually, it still is alive and well, if you get far enough away from the urban areas. There are places not that far from Memphis, TN where racial slurs are acceptable bathroom graffiti, and no effort is made to remove them. The world wouldn't change; sometimes people have to be leaders, and pull everyone else along - even if they're kicking and screaming.