Pride 2009

Love makes a family – doesn’t it? Shouldn’t it?

What other law, what other policy do we need to put in place that trumps this?

For families to have kids they want, for those kids to have homes that are safe and environment where their childhood is happy and growth into good citizens is ensured.

For people to have a loved one around when they are sick, sad or just alone.

For anyone to have someone to rejoice with, travel with, spend vacation with.

For anyone to have someone they can miss, they can cherish, they can love.

And an equal right for everyone to pursue this.

What good are societies if they can’t deal with differences with dignity and evolve with time to understand that differences are created for a reason? If we were all the same, we all wouldn’t be needed. We built society to safeguard humanity. We built rules to facilitate communities. Not to weed out differences like well, like weeds.

And who is anyone to say what differences are right and wrong. They just are. We are all the same, in the make-up of our ‘human-ness’. Flesh and blood and emotions and flaws and capabilities. Same origin of birth and a same end goal of death. Who is anyone to decide that the path anyone follows in that journey is wrong just because it isn’t like theirs?

And this is what I felt at pride 2009. As I thought about last year and happiness and hope of equality, I was so upset by harm Prop 8 did. Who gives anyone the right to take away other’s rights? Where’s empathy, where’s juts basic good logic and sense?

No one can stop progress. No one ever has stopped evolution. If a community is asking for its rights to be treated and acknowledged equal and committed to pursue happiness, may it thrive! And be well. And have all the power it needs to make it happen. The colors of rainbow, the ‘pride’ will thrive.