http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/14/protest_letter_from_woodland Comments On: Protest Letter from Woodland, CA by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by charlesjay1000]]> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:59:26 -0800 The Stranger
I'm not trolling but I did fuck up the troll's quote, it was, "You lost, it’s over, shut the fuck up."

My sincerest apologies.
Posted by trollah palin]]> Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:23:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Emma]]> Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:24:26 -0800 The Stranger
That sums all of this up so well. Majority opinion is not a just determinant of minority rights.
Posted by JC]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:34:49 -0800 The Stranger
I'm ashamed to admit that I was naive enough to believe that prop 8 wasn't going to pass in California. It is because of this that I did not have open conversations with people about this issue. I should have started the dialogue before the issue was voted on. I've started to lose faith in us as human beings in our capacity to understand and respect our differences (especially in seeing all the hateful, ignorant, and illogical comments). Your letter is just one of many ray of hopes for me, reigniting my courage to fight for the rights of others (no matter how hopeless it seems). I'm a heterosexual indvidual who has no direct relationships with anyone who is of homosexual orientation and am very glad to see that there IS people of good faith and good heart who knows that love and equality is not an issue of religion, but of our ineliable rights as American citizens and the protections afforded by the constitution. In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that this is a cause to fight for and I wish you and your family the best in your journey for fighting for the equality of all.
Posted by Jeanine]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:07:07 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by A.M.W.F.E.]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:56:23 -0800 The Stranger "He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
Posted by heather]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:53:43 -0800 The Stranger
That is in stark contrast to the day the California Supreme Court released the In re Marriage Cases decision. I told my mom that day that the decision made me proud to be a Californian. As a law student, I geeked out on the opinion--the California Supreme Court applied the most stringent level of judicial review to the statute because it classified citizens on the basis of their sexual orientation. That is something that the U.S. Supreme Court has not done and this particular manifestation of the Court is unlikely to do.

Awash in the wake of West Hollywood protests and the flood of commentators' comparisons to interracial marriage, I re-read Loving v. Virginia today. The law at issue there criminalized marriages between whites and nonwhites, excluding descendants of Pocahontas (no joke). The offense was punishable by one to five years in prison. Prison. For not less than a year. But, if you weren't white, you were free to marry any nonwhite with whom you chose to dirty your bloodline. It was, in essence, an embodiment of white supremacist principles.

At the time the USSC decided the case, Virginia's law was one of sixteen similar state laws (Maryland repealed its anti-miscegenation law during the Loving litigation). The laws were relics of slavery and post-WWI hyper-nativism. The lower court judge is on record saying that God put the different races on different continents to keep them separate.

But, in 1967, society was trending toward racial equality, just as I believe we are trending toward sexual orientation equality. During the fifteen years preceding Loving, fourteen states repealed their anti-miscegenation laws. The first to do so? California.
Posted by California]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:40:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jeanine]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:34:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chris in Tampa]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:14:49 -0800 The Stranger
I'm not trolling but I did fuck up Dans quote, it was, "You lost, it’s over, shut the fuck up."

My sincerest apologies.
Posted by Toledo Stripper]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:11:36 -0800 The Stranger
And I read this in the article:

The Klan was driven underground, but re-formed after World War I. Klan activity increased during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and has surged again since 2006 as a result of opposition to gay marriage and immigration.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan…

So sad.
Posted by Sam]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:56:45 -0800 The Stranger
whenever equality is considered "liberal", society is messed up
Posted by asdf]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:06:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by trollsaredelicious]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:21:47 -0800 The Stranger sea_rooster@msn.com Jeremiah
Posted by Jeremiah]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:42:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Toledo Stripper]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:41:54 -0800 The Stranger