Love Will Prevail

[filkertom]

As you may have already seen, there's a petition campaign with a video going around, trying to stop the California Supreme Court from the noxious lawsuit filed by the equally noxious Ken Starr, attempting to divorce the 18,000 gay couples married in California before Prop 8 was passed.

The vid is titled "Fidelity", after the song by Regina Spektor that serves as soundtrack. Many blogs are calling it "Don't Divorce Us", after the message of the vid. But I think I like the tag line best.

Love will prevail.

If you love someone, several someones, family, friends, lovers, whomever, tell 'em. They deserve to know, and all of you deserve love. I'll start: I love each and every one of you, just for putting up with me, let alone all the good you've brought to my life, great and small.

Comments

[sstaver.livejournal.com]

I love you too, Tom! <3

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

Signed the petition. Wish I had more to donate. thanks for the information.

And, btw, you rock.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Y'know, at one point I could almost pity Ken Starr. He was acting under orders, and yes, that's neither excuse nor defense. But still, one can sympathize with being put in that kind of ugly position.

But for this, he loses all rights to sympathy. Last I checked, one could not retroactively prosecute something that was not illegal at the time, and (with apologies to Treebeard), an attorney should know better.

[iambickilometer.livejournal.com]

In accordance: I love you and your blog for keeping me informed and amused about world issues. Without you, I wouldn't know nearly as much about the goings-on of the world as I do. Thank you. (Plus, your filking is really quite amusing. As with your original songwriting.)

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I'll view it when I get home from work tonight.

How was the drive to the con? 10 hours in a car! I'd go crazy(ier) if I had to do that! Well either that or fall asleep at the wheel. Not sure which one is worse.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That wasn't the problem: the problem was I-77 through the Virginias, which were not snow-covered as I feared, which is great because I would be dead right now. Winding, steep, filled with trucks and construction, surfaces that made me think my wheels were about to come off -- I have never been so scared and not been in a plane. I'm taking a longer, flatter way home.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Glad you made it there safe and sound. I'm not sure of a way back without going through the mountains, but good luck and have a good time this weekend!

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

When I came back from the shuttle launch last November, I used I-77 north out of Columbia, SC to Canton, Ohio, then westward on The Lincoln Highway (US-30). I-77 was enjoyable in the mountains, then again it was the first time using that route. Better than a I-26 to I-40 and back to I-75 route were going through it before, would not want to do in the dark. Defferent than the just seen I-75 route.

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

If you need a friendly spot in Maryland (DC area) to pause before continuing onwards, let me know. :)

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

We all love you too Tom :)

Drive safe and God speed on your way home.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I never thought I would have so much in common with Bill Clinton.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

And we love you, Tom, you silly chinchilla-looking frood.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I watched 18 overjoyed couples get joined in marriage June 16. I saw a lesbian couple, the kind of women who were probably pillars of their churches, that had been together for 45 years. I watched an elderly Chinese couple beam as their daughter finally got married. I watched one guy stomp an empty water bottle to yells of "Mazel Tov!" by everyone in City Hall. I saw tiny kids in their best clothes watch and cheer as their Moms or Dads became legal (you know, the same children the Prop 8 folks were so concerned about "protecting"). One man broke down and cried during his vows, and he was still teary a half-hour later. One dignified-looking middle-aged couple pulled out neon green and pink feather-boa fans at the end and waved them. Every color, every race, in a room so full of joy that it was a Republican nightmare come to life.

Ken Starr? Please die in a fire, you sex-hating anti-family neo-con pig.