Comments on: Parental gut-check (1)

By: Ezra and Us

Ezra and Us — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:46:51 +0000

Hello, I’ve been reading your blog for months now and have a moment while boy is at school to respond and say a ‘giant’ thank you from the bottom of my heart to your amazing words. You are reaching many people and in my own fundraising efforts I admit to having listed lesbiandad as a link. My partner and I married last weekend after being together for 10 years and having a beautiful 3 1/2 year old boy.

By: anotherothermother

anotherothermother — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:55:18 +0000

You captured my feelings about this horrible, vile Proposition and this battle and this desperate hope that we just have to win this one because it’s big, really big. Thanks for your eloquence and your love which both always shine.

By: SJnky

SJnky — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:02:57 +0000

Oh, LD. You are all on my mind and thoughts as this day draws near. I am excited, anxious, nervous, psyched and completely freaked out all at the same time. How I hope things will change…

Keep it up. Just a little bit longer.

By: mcontini

mcontini — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:10:23 +0000

Really, it breaks my heart that you even need to be going through this. I did a small post at my blog on No on Prop 8. I will try and get others to do the same.

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:02:06 +0000

I realize that violence is, um, not the answer, but this morning, while walking to work, I saw a yellow Yes on Prop 8 sign in the window of a store in Oakland’s Chinatown, and for a moment, found myself thinking about smashing the window. I have never been in that store (nor will, based on the absolutely horrid lack-of-fashion displayed next to the sign in the window), and don’t know anything about its management, but my white-hot anger at it all shocked me.

As I said to a friend yesterday, there’s a little part of me who is sorry I changed my voter registration out of Iowa, where my vote for Obama might have done more good than it will do here. But a huge, huge part of me is so glad I changed my registration, simply because I cannot stand by and not act on this ballot initiative. It breaks my heart that people who call themselves people of God (any God) would broker this kind of inequality, injustice and hate.

By: Vikki

Vikki — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:59:10 +0000

Hang in there, my friend. Hang in there. You are in the trenches, I know. Please know that even here in the tundra…we’re with ya. I’ve been targeting every straight friend of mine that I know and asking them to talk to everyone they know. Luisa will be making phone calls for No on 8 from Minneapolis this week. You are not alone.

By: mama lion

mama lion — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:50:12 +0000

I want you to know:

-this is the first political campaign I’ve ever actually worked on
-my hetero family is only indirectly threatened (because it is a step backward for all of us) but my stomach has been in knots as well
-there is a lawn sign in our yard and bumper stickers on our cars, and we handed out more to our neighbors
-my child’s 25 year-old music teacher is voting for the first time, in part because he “can’t believe this is even on the ballot, it’s so stupid.” He is talking more friends into voting.
- the overwhelming majority of the people I reached while phone banking are very much against prop 8, and vocal about it.
I’m telling you this because you have had a real influence on my activism. I always would have cared deeply about this issue, but it is your blog that moved me to fight as hard as I can for its defeat. Take heart – you are making a difference.

By: AllieGreenhouse

AllieGreenhouse — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:51:28 +0000

When you say,
“I try now to think of these things, and think that, as so many keep reminding me, the love of my children for me, like mine of them, can never be legislated out of existence.”
This is the bottom line. Hold tight to that.

Remember that people before us held that love together when allies were hard to find and attacks came thick and fast. You can do what they did. This has helped me in the past. Remember too that there are parents and children in other parts of the world in those dark places still. And, if you can stand to, maybe remember that it is, in the end, sad for those who fear us the most. All those individuals and groups who hand over money out of terror of the unknown. They must be living in a world foggy with fear. Don’t let them drag you there. Wishing you strength from across the pond.

By: LaraCarina

LaraCarina — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:39:42 +0000

LD,
You just facilitated the culmination of my weeks of freaking out. I sat here, read your post and cried. I have been workign workign working for No on 8, to find a new home, to write my thesis and I just lost it. I feel a wee bit better. A little soggy, but better. I am sitting in my half-moved-out-of house surrounded by boxes and No on 8 lawn signs. I don’t even have a lawn! But when I get one, I will be ready with the signs.

If ever there was a time to embrace the yiddish it would be now.
In the words of my grandmother: I’m ready to plots from all this mishegas. Such a tsuris I’ve never had!

By: Reno

Reno — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:41:54 +0000

Keep talking — your friends and allies are listening. Every time I meet someone from CA (which happens a lot here) I talk to them about measure 8. I also just donated again. I know you’re in a hard, hard place, and I want to thank you for speaking from that place and keeping the heat on.