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tikieraTonight, I will bang on drums, hug my best friends, and, potentially drink some booze.
Because right now I am pissed.
My email box had 3 emails in it about the court case to revoke the marriages that happened before Prop 8. My lj had links to a petition.
I don't have money to donate right now, but I am seriously considering how much I need another BPAL, and maybe the money would be better spent trying to convince people not to hate.
I am angry. I can't understand - I don't want to understand the kind of person who can try to unmarry these couples. I am ashamed of California right now, and will be until that damn Prop had been defeated, somehow, someway. I hate being reminded of how we failed.
And I really should have stopped reading at that point - because then I got another lesson in how far we have to go -
There is a women in Italy, she is comatose, no hope of ever waking. She had her made her wishes clear before her accident - she would not want to be kept alive. Her father has fought to have the feeding tube removed - and the Italian government has issued an emergency decree insisting that the tube not be removed.
And this is what the Prime Minister has to say "I will do everything I can to save her life. Eluana is alive, and she could have children."
Not brain function, but the ability to have children.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/06/italy.euthanasia.berlusconi/
I have been in the hospital room, with my father, my bio father who loved me and who I loved, when the doctors told us that he was going to die, that there was no hope, that the brain damage was going to be extensive. I told that doctor off - I was barely a teenager and those words, they just couldn't be true - and we received a miracle - he lived, he woke up, the brain damage was much, much, much less than anticpated - some memory and balance problems, no cognitive function lost.
And yet? I still support the right of anyone to say "I don't want to be kept alive if I am in vegetative state. " I support their right to chose to die rather than be kept alive, in a coma, in a hospital.
And for the reason to a woman to be kept alive despite her wishes because her reproductive organs still work? That is creepy and awful, and EVIL.
It's days like these that make me wish I believe in karma.
Because right now I am pissed.
My email box had 3 emails in it about the court case to revoke the marriages that happened before Prop 8. My lj had links to a petition.
I don't have money to donate right now, but I am seriously considering how much I need another BPAL, and maybe the money would be better spent trying to convince people not to hate.
I am angry. I can't understand - I don't want to understand the kind of person who can try to unmarry these couples. I am ashamed of California right now, and will be until that damn Prop had been defeated, somehow, someway. I hate being reminded of how we failed.
And I really should have stopped reading at that point - because then I got another lesson in how far we have to go -
There is a women in Italy, she is comatose, no hope of ever waking. She had her made her wishes clear before her accident - she would not want to be kept alive. Her father has fought to have the feeding tube removed - and the Italian government has issued an emergency decree insisting that the tube not be removed.
And this is what the Prime Minister has to say "I will do everything I can to save her life. Eluana is alive, and she could have children."
Not brain function, but the ability to have children.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/06/italy.euthanasia.berlusconi/
I have been in the hospital room, with my father, my bio father who loved me and who I loved, when the doctors told us that he was going to die, that there was no hope, that the brain damage was going to be extensive. I told that doctor off - I was barely a teenager and those words, they just couldn't be true - and we received a miracle - he lived, he woke up, the brain damage was much, much, much less than anticpated - some memory and balance problems, no cognitive function lost.
And yet? I still support the right of anyone to say "I don't want to be kept alive if I am in vegetative state. " I support their right to chose to die rather than be kept alive, in a coma, in a hospital.
And for the reason to a woman to be kept alive despite her wishes because her reproductive organs still work? That is creepy and awful, and EVIL.
It's days like these that make me wish I believe in karma.
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Date: 2009-02-07 01:27 am (UTC)That said, this is why everyone should have a will and a living will.
Other'n that...well, this is the problem with the Catholicism. :)
I got nothin' useful to say about Prop. 8, aside from the fact that everyone who voted for it deserves to hemorrhage from the eyes, ears and ass.
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Date: 2009-02-07 03:04 pm (UTC)Do you really mean that he's getting involved in some Italian political dispute? My sense is that he's not terribly close to being the type of person who'd contemplate that, unless it was an issue that he gave a damn about, which doesn't include either of these issues.
re: donating to the legal fight, I'm pretty sure that giving to NARAL, MoveOn.Org, some specific political candidate, or whoever the heck else you want to would be a better use of the money, including BPal. It's not like they're going to struggle to pay top notch attorneys for this, and there's a limit to how much money can be usefully spent. Heck, if gay marriage is your your only concern, Equality Florida is likely to be a much more productive use of your money. Keeping the ball moving forward in other states is quite big for California, and there's a lot of people in Florida who would like to get married, too.
In news that might cheer you more, the Anti-SSM amendment failed (http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2009/Digest/HJ0017.htm) in Wyoming.
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Date: 2009-02-07 07:45 pm (UTC)Always glad to hear the good news.