Historic Day In California
Like many of you, I watched the Prop 8 hearing at the California Supreme Court today with great anticipation and emotion. It was great to see so many Angelenos come to the City Council chamber to watch the proceedings at our public viewing.
As I said earlier today, all of us — gay and straight — who care about fairness, justice, tolerance and equality are watching this case closely with the greatest hope for our state and our nation that those who serve to protect our rights and freedoms will see fit to do so for all of us.
We have stood in our city council chambers for justice time and time again, before there was marriage equality — we passed resolution after resolution for it — until we had marriage equality and on the steps of this building we had our very first same-sex wedding, which I had the joy of presiding over. It is heartbreaking to listen to this argument for any of us who have experienced the beauty of these weddings. For myself, I just got married in January too and I know, that which we have, nobody can take away. Justice is on our side, whether it is today or whether it is tomorrow. No matter what the result of today’s hearing is, no doubt the fight will go on but I am confident that marriage equality will be restored in California.
