The Right to Love
My love and I are married. This is our choice. This is what works for us. We should not have the right however to impose our lifestyle choice on others anymore than any government should have the right to deny the lifestyle choice of consenting adults. We all have the right to love whomever we please. Marriage is a civil right, an equal right for all plain and simple.
My husband and I are not the only ones who think so and we were proud to march hand in hand with many others to voice our belief that everyone deserves the right to express their love in the same way that we have been able, if they so wish.
Here's what went down in Santa Monica last night:
Still need convicing?
This Saturday, November 15th is the national rally. PLEASE get out and get involved. You can locate the rally information for your city here.
Please sign the petiton to overturn Prop 8 here.
Further, if you want to boycot businesses associated with the passing of Prop 8, here is a list. I did not fact check this list myself personally, but if any of these businesses effect you, I suggest you check them out.
Herbalife
El Pollo Loco (over 51 stores; plus the CEO contributed big bucks to pass Prop 8)
Merrill Lynch
Cisco Systems (big time Contributors)
Intel Taco Bell
Kroger foods (Ralph's and Albertsons)
American Express
NPS Pharmaceuticals
Priceline.com
Black and Decker
Hollywood Entertainment( Hollywood Video)
Jet Blue
Dell Computer
K-BIG FM radio Los Angeles
La Quinta Properties (t-a Quinta hotels)
Iomega Host Marriott (Marriott hotels and resorts)
Denny's (4 stores)
Wachovia Securities
A-1 Self Storage (40 locations in California)
Deloitte & Touche - Accounting Firm, Walnut, CA
Cristopher K. Thompson - Real Estate Agent (Encino)
U-Rent, Inc. of Camarillo
Novell
Sky West Airlines
NuSkin
Affiliated computer services
Oil States International
AES corp.
Oakley
Avista corp.
Phelps Dodge Corp.
Cadence Design
Ryder Systems (Ryder Trucks)
Corvis
Central Pacific Bank
Swift Transportation
1-80O-Contacts
Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc.
Cygnus Inc.
Tropical Sportswear
Diebold
Williams Companies Inc.
Zions Securities Corp
Dionex
Downey Savings and Loan
AgReserves lnc. (agriculture)
EarthShell
Sunrider Int'l.
Franklin Covey
Latham and Watkins
Hillenbrand Industries
Huntsman Chemical
Headwaters Inc.
Bain Capital
Spectra
Azul
JP Realty
Deloitte Touche
Key Corp.
Zions Securities Corp.
Knight Transportation
Bonneville comm.
K-Swiss lnc.
Telefonica Brasil
Apx Alarm
Micrel Semiconductor
Micro General
Merit Medical Systems
Monaco Coach
Microsemi Corp.
Myriad Genetics
4 comments:
YES! Real love is rare enough ... we need to CELEBRATE it, not condemn it, People! XXOO!
*How did those businesses support it? Money?
* With their bucks (some really big) that people like us gave 'em.
Thanks for the business list, V! Now I can put my money where my heart is! (Or isn't, as the case may be) We felt so helpless over here watching as our state, one of the most tolerant and liberal places to live in the US, passed Prop 8- an incredibly mean-spirited and backwards law last Tuesday. I feel empowered with this list to at least take action against such Fear-based outrage.
It seems sadly that most Californians are still so afraid of what they do not associate with, or understand, and thus feel threatened by, that they are willing to do something as Un-American as repeal an inalienable right to all loving consenting adults. I have been disappointed and depressed at this reality.
Thank you for sending this whole email. Peace and love to you and Matt.
You are such a wonderful soul, I am continually glad to know you and call you my friend. This post is beautiful and I love this list of companies. I'll try to check out on snope.com now to see if it's legit. It might not be posted there, but I think even sending this list around shows that we will NOT tolerate corporate corruption of our country.!!
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