Don't Divorce Anyone

[erastes]

I'm sure a lot of you have already seen this. but Campaign for Courage has the most wonderful images I've seen for many years. Hundreds and hundreds of people who simply LOVE EACH OTHER. No agenda, no motive, no race, no subversion. Just love. Just family. Commitment.

THIS IS THE SLIDESHOW. There is a shorter video at the end.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/content/dontdivorce

Set the slideshow in motion and just absorb the pictures. These aren't people trying to clinch the limelight, they are people in love. People with families. Images that can make a difference. A wave of love, that perhaps, for once, can make a Difference.

Don't Divorce Them.

Family is family. Haven't we already been through most of this fight? Black, white, brown, 'yellow' - humans are able to love--so what does it matter what they have between their legs? When you make a friend, what's the first thing you do? Reach down to their groin to find out what sex they are?

One of the most touching pictures in this slideshow is two white men embracing, and two black children, imploring "don't divorce our dads."  One of the most touching. There are hundreds and hundreds more.  Let's hope it reaches a million pictures, let's hope it does some good. Let's hope that John Lennon was right - that would be good, wouldn't it?

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

Add your pictures. Write a letter. Send an email. Join a march. Add to the weight. Buy I DO - the anthology to help fight Prop 8. Pass this message on.

But do something.

Comments

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

I signed the petition.

Edit: I bought an ebook copy of the I Do anthology.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

I have two friends here in Colorado who would very much like to marry. Maybe some day the entire country will get it's head out of the middle ages and get with the real world and do the right thing.

I'd also like the opportunity to marry whomever I love someday.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. It's the wedding pics that get me the most, I think - all these people looking so radiant.

Will post to Facebook; maybe that'll help spread the message.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Now THIS is what I call "Defense of Marriage!"

Don't Divorce Anyone

[(Anonymous)]

Come to Toronto, Ontario, where gay marriage is legal. However, smoking in public is not. Leading to this overheard comment which I got a kick out of.
'Toronto. Where you can marry a fag but you can't smoke one.'

Re: Don't Divorce Anyone

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, I live in the UK so it's the same here, no smoking in public either!! :)

Re: Don't Divorce Anyone

[enolabloodygay.livejournal.com]

Oh, we second class citizens in the UK who pay loads of tax CAN smoke in public. Just as long as we are not wussy enough to want walls, a roof or shelter of any kind! :-)

But at least I can go to my gay friends' weddings.

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

One of the hardest things in life for people to learn is what love is it seems. Love begins, not with the self, but with the other. It gives, but does not ask to receive. It has no cost to count, no records of wrongs and always seeks to listen and to understand.

I am convinced that most people never actually find love in their relationships, because they look for it as something they can get, not give. They create boundaries for something that transcends all boundaries.
Love does not know gender, colour or creed.

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

Beautifully said.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Video.