Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive [...]
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Eloquence in defence of love
Posted in Social comment, tagged gay, gay rights, human rights, humanity, Keith Olbermann, Love, Marriage on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MSNBC Countdown program, Monday 10 November, 2008. Keith Olbermann’s special comment on the passing of California’s Proposition 8.
Transcript of the Special Comment:
http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/10/1667759.aspx
Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance [...]
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