Maya Angelou on Marriage Equality

[furrbear]

As reported in the 5/28/2009 NYT:

Ms. Angelou said she felt compelled to speak out because she believes that legalizing same-sex marriage is a matter of social fairness — a subject that has been a theme of her writing.

“I would ask every man and every woman who’s had the blessing of having children, ‘Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?’ ” she said.

Ms. Angelou said she believed that society made gay relationships hard enough without the added burden of making marriage illegal.

“To love someone takes a lot of courage,” she said. “So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, ‘I forbid you from loving this person’?”

Comments

[bearnight.livejournal.com]

Such an incredible and kind woman

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this.

[gordreece.livejournal.com]

I love this woman. Even that weird inauguration poem she read for Clinton can be forgiven.

I hope someone is eating her pussy every time she wants it. She deserves at least that for being such a great and talented person.

[hidefbear.livejournal.com]

If they can elect a man to be pope, I say we can elect this woman to be god.

Not that I believe in such nonsense, but it's a nice thought.

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

This is EXACTLY the sort of matter-of-fact 'normalisation' of our lives that we need...

Because those against us are just full of such HATRED - it's a waste of their energy!