Utah's petty little stand can't stop gay-marriage avalanche

[lcooksey]

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02192004/utah/140290.asp

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We have a blazing civil rights movement here, friends, the first of this budding century. It is strikingly similar to the fight for equality waged by blacks from Reconstruction, through an era of Jim Crow laws and straight on to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It mirrors the efforts by suffragists, who rallied for women's right to vote at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention but did not gain the franchise for another 72 years, with ratification of the 19th Amendment.
These movements demand unflinching patience and determination from their adherents. Blacks struggling for the vote, for a seat at the front of the bus and a decent education endured fire hoses, snarling dogs and lynchings. Women were told -- by the same forefathers the anti-gay rights crowd so reveres -- they were too stupid and flighty to vote.
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Same-sex marriage is way beyond one state's grasp. This is a national movement, a social upheaval. Put your ear to the ground and hear it.
Remember, that's 3,000 couples in one week. Just try sending them back to the closet.

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Amen

Now that liberals have the ball rolling there is no stopping us, not to say there won't be bumps along the way.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Welcome to DU lcooksey!!

Glad to have you aboard!! :yourock: :grouphug:

[lcooksey]

4. I'm happy to be here, thanks! (eom)

[xchrom]

3. indeed

and well said.