[Dialogue] cultural quake hits California; national backlash expected

[Carlos R. Zervigon]

Wayne

 

Go for it! The majority of the U. S. especially the younger generation and
some of us transformed old farts are in your corner.

 

Carlos R. Zervigon, PMP

Zervigon International, Ltd.

817 Antonine St.

New Orleans, LA  70115  USA

504 894-9868 Mobile: 504 908-0762

carlos at zervigon.com

http://www.zervigon.com

 

From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of W. J.
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:56 PM
To: oe at wedgeblade.net; dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Dialogue] cultural quake hits California; national backlash
expected

 

Today, in the midst of a tropical heatwave in northern California, our
state's Supreme Court declared that to deny marriage to any couple is to
brand them as second class citizens. In a month, for the first time ever,
fully ten percent of US citizens will be able to marry whomever they choose.

 

Starting tomorrow, Californians expect every rich right-wing bigot in the
country to join in the coming political fray by raising multiple millions of
U$D for the right-wing organizations that have put an amendment on the
November ballot to roll back the court decision and enshrine discrimination
in the state constitution.

 

Bottom line is, it ain't over till it's over. Today's court decision will
provoke a major call to arms by the vast right-wing conspiracy, hopefully
their last gasp before they're buried in a Democratic landslide in November.

 

The backlash from this decision may have a huge impact on national politics.
The money that will flow to California to support the amendment may shift
the outcome of the presidential election. If the amendment prevails,
California will go to Senator John McBush, and that means that Barack will
be history like Kerry, Gore, and Dukakis. Which may give Hillary another
shot in 2012.

 

On a more personal note: some of my friends were plaintiffs in this case,
and one of them is a child of an interracial couple whose marriage was made
legal by a decision of the California Supreme Court in 1948.

 

Finally, I am grateful that for the first time, I will be able to conduct
legal marriage ceremonies for same-gender couples in California as a United
Methodist clergyman. If anyone chooses to bring a complaint to my bishop,
I'll be very happy to participate in a church trial. 

 

The United Methodist Discipline prohibits clergy from conducting 'ceremonies
of homosexual union,' but it does not prohibit clergy from officiating at
(some) legal marriages permitted by the state. To do so would place the
church in a position of discriminating against a minority of its members
whom the state allows to marry.

 

Marshall Jones

 

 

 

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