“Please Don’t Divorce Us”

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

In December last year, the liars and bigots who ran the “Yes on 8” campaign to re-ban same-sex marriage in California hired the reviled Ken Starr (who led the persecution harassment witchhunt investigation of President Bill Clinton) to take the legal lead in their campaign to keep the California Supreme Court from invalidating Proposition 8. Then, shortly before Christmas, Starr filed a brief demanding that the California Supreme Court invalidate all 18,000 same-sex marriages performed in that state between May and November 2008 (despite the “Yes on 8” campaign leaders consistently telling California voters during the campaign that they’d do no such thing—which is one of the many reasons they’re legitimately called liars).

In response to Starr, the Courage Campaign solicited photos of ordinary people sending the same message: “Please don’t divorce…” their friends, parents, co-workers, themselves—whoever was appropriate. The Courage Campaign then assembled the photos together and created the above video, “Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… It’s part of a campaign in which they’re asking people to express their support for defeating Ken Starr.

It’s certainly true that, as the video says, in the end “love will prevail”, but right now the lives and happiness—not to mention freedom and equality—of 18,000 couples hangs in the balance.

Oral arguments on the case begin before the California Supreme Court on March 9, 2009, with a decision expected within the following 90 days. Hopefully justice will prevail and Ken Starr will be handed another defeat. More importantly, hopefully justice will be restored for all Californians, especially those 18,000 couples.

I found the video, as I have so many other things, over at Joe.My.God.