I attended the Keep Fighting Prop 8 protest in San Francisco last night and wrote a letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle about it in case it is not too late to influence public opinion in a hopefully helpful manner.
Since my marriage is to a member of the opposite sex, perhaps I had no business seeking comfort from the gay community last night. Yet I went to the steps of City Hall seeking relief from my own sorrow about the outcome of Prop 8. Same-sex couples value marriage and want it so badly while "straight" people have been mocking the institution for decades. Maybe Prop 8 took marriage away from the wrong orientation.
I don't even think that "straight" is an appropriate term for heterosexual relationships anyway. If I am straight, doesn't that make a gay person bent?
Why is same-sex marriage everybody's business anyway? People have sometimes asked me "What did you marry that *** for?" after they have met my husband. To be honest I have questioned my own orientation from time to time, but my husband and I are legally family and the thought of never seeing him again is devastating to me.
If same-sex couples want what I have enough to take it to the streets, I do understand.