‘I simply must respond to all the people . . . who are mourning today's SCOTUS decision’
Last year, the state GOP added language to its party platform condemning marriage equality: “Recognize marriage as the legal and sacred union between one man and one woman as ordained by God, encouraged by the State, and traditional to humankind, and the core of the Family.”
So it’s no surprise that some party leaders condemned yesterday’s Supreme Court decision guaranteeing a right to same-sex marriage. “Truly a day of mourning for this once great country,” wrote Merrimack County Republican Committee chair Kathleen Lauer Rago, a former state representative and 2014 state senate nominee.
That drew this response from the son of JP Marzullo, a former state party vice-chair and state senate candidate who has publicly supported marriage equality:
I simply must respond to all the people on my father’s feed who are mourning today’s SCOTUS decision as the death of the country or the death of their rights to affect law.
For the entirety of my life (during which I’ve known I was gay for pretty much all of it), I have been subjected to your scorn, your ignorance, your cruelty and the consensus of governmental officials that all people are not to be treated equally under the law (despite what we have professed in jingoistic moments around flags and at national events).
My life is dull. I go to work. I struggle to pay my bills. I read books. I volunteer at soup kitchens and hold bake sales for underprivileged children who want an education. I go to bed before 10 on most nights, because I like to see the sun rise as I meditate every morning. Yet I and LGBT people have been cast as a horde of villainous reprobates intent on undermining an illusory notion of family held by straight Americans.
We’ve been demonized, abused, killed and tormented by people, sadly, like many of the ones on this feed whose myopic view of the American dream is only reserved for people they view as equal.
The dark truth of this American system is that sometimes branches like the Supreme Court need to step up and right a wrong (one that frankly was coming anyway - the tide HAS turned) and live up to what the Constitution promises the citizens of America regardless of their backgrounds.
Now, let’s all stop griping about people getting married and actually do something about poverty and veterans affairs. [formatting added]