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CA Marriages; another step closer to equality
Written by David Tuesday, 10 June 2008 20:14
Article published Jun 10, 2008 in the Aberdeen American News
Times changing now
2008-06-10 To the editor - It is indeed a fine time for fair-minded people to be alive. Not only has the Democratic party selected a black American for its presidential nominee, the candidate coming in second was a smart, assertive woman willing to take on the "big boys."
In the 1960s we sang with Bob Dylan, "For the times they are a-changin'” and hoped it was true. Those lyrics and music can be pulled again from the old guitar case as nearly every day another chain of discrimination or lock on bigotry opens as the keys of justice release its captive.
The strength and genius of the American justice system is that it eventually discovers that the tyranny of a majority is the primary threat to liberty. It is not judicial activism when a besieged minority is rightly uplifted, awarded and honored with equal rights. And so it was that the California Supreme Court recognized that same-sex marriage is equal to any heterosexual marriage.
Poll after poll reveals more Americans recognizing that inequality is wrong. It was evil to enslave anyone, prevent women from voting and bar interracial marriage. Now a more compassionate and younger generation leads the growing public support for the freedom to marry the person you love. In California on June 17, gays and lesbians from every state will be able to ceremoniously and legally take their partner's hand and announce their commitment through marriage while humming Bobby Darin's “Simple Song of Freedom.”
David D. Fischer
Aberdeen
Equality South Dakota, board member and secretary
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