Julie Verratti, a second-year GW Law student, expressed her disappointment in California’s passing of Proposition 8:
“As I write this, I am angry and sad because my partner, my best friend and the love of my life Emily and I were married on June 20, 2008, in San Francisco.
“This is why all of those 5.5 million votes were personal. That was my marriage that was voted on. That was my family that was judged as less than. And it was the marriages of 18,000 other newlyweds in California, and the thousands more that did not get married in time, but always wanted to one day.”
Read the full column here.
Well said Julie.
At least California couples still have the rights of co-ownership, adoption, etc that are absent in so many other states.
I’m afraid of a ban on Gay Marriage…If the Government can tell us who we can marry, how soon is it until they tell us where we can live, where we must go to school etc.