Earlier this year, a few friends and I got together to form Digital Dandelion, Inc., a company specializing in social web application design and development. Our first application was Paper Fortune Teller. Our second application is Bottle Buzz. Recently, we were one of 25 out of over 600 applicants to be awarded a first round fbFund grant. Now, we need your help to win round two.
Please vote everyday between now and November 30 for Bottle Buzz. I’ve never done well at popularity contests, but, with your help, I might just make it.
Arthur & I were engaged before California’s Supreme Court ruled that gays could be married. We planned on having a DPCC (“Domestic Partnership Commitment Ceremony”). We obviously opted for a real marriage license when it became an option. The passage of Proposition 8, an amendment to California’s Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman, will void my marriage. There are still 4 million absentee ballots yet to be counted, but it’s not looking good.
An old church acquaintance from Virginia decided to rub salt in my wound this morning:
Sorry Jeremiah, a marriage according to the Bible, which what this nation was founded upon, is only between a man and a woman.
I thought that I would share my response:
The bible has been used to justify keeping women from equality, blacks from basic rights, blacks from equal rights, and now eliminating gay marriage. This nation was not founded on the bible. This nation was founded on individual freedom, from kings and popes and aristocracy.
The government cannot take a “moral” stand when no harm is being done. Giving me and my husband the same medical, tax, adoption, inheritance, and other rights that you enjoy with your wife harms no one. I hope those who believe in the bible can also believe that government should not have the power to pick and choose who gets certain rights.
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