Fidelity: This video will break your heart
| By Julia Rosen, Online Political Director - Feb 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pm PST |
| Also listed in: Courage Campaign Staff |
Today we are proud to debut "Fidelity", to put a face on the 18,000 couples facing potential forcible divorce. On December 19, 2008, Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and seeking to nullify the 18,000 same-sex marriages conducted between May and November of 2008.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March 5, 2009, with a decision expected within the next 90 days.
Watch the video and then go sign the letter to the State Supreme Court, telling them to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund's case, and let loving committed couples marry.
A special thanks to Regina Spektor for giving us permission to use her song "Fidelity".
Flip it to see the email we sent out to Courage Campaign members earlier today.
Dear Member,
This video will break your heart.
And Ken Starr is to blame.
Yes, THAT Ken Starr. The prosecutor who led the campaign to impeach President Bill Clinton has filed a legal brief -- on behalf of the "Yes on 8" campaign -- that would forcibly divorce the 18,000 same-sex couples married in California last year before the passage of Prop 8.
News broke Tuesday that the state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 5, and will then make a decision within 90 days on the validity of Prop 8 and these 18,000 marriages.
When Starr's legal brief went public in December, the Courage Campaign immediately launched the "Don't Divorce..." campaign, asking our members to send us pictures with a simple message for Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund.
Those pictures, and the heartfelt messages on them, inspired blogger Paul Delehanty (also known as "kid oakland") to send us a suggestion: Would Regina Spektor allow us to put your pictures to the words and music of her hit song "Fidelity"? So, we asked her and she said yes, very enthusiastically.
Regina Spektor's song, in concert with your pictures, shines a beautiful light on the 18,000 couples that Ken Starr wants to forcibly divorce.
Click here to watch "Fidelity," the heartbreaking music video inspired by your pictures and words, and then tell the Supreme Court not to divorce 18,000 California couples. Tell the Court to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr's case, and let loving, committed couples marry. DEADLINE: Valentine's Day:
Everyone who cares about marriage equality needs to spread the word that this isn't just a court case.
The lives of your spouses, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers and your family members hang in the balance.
Please watch this video and then, if you feel as we do, please share it with your friends. The more people that see this video, the more people will understand the pain caused by Prop 8 and Ken Starr's shameful legal proceeding:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/Divorce
Thank you to the amazing people who sent us these wonderful pictures. Thank you to Paul for his inspired idea and Regina for her beautiful song. And thank you for taking action to support the love of 18,000 couples across California.
Rick Jacobs
Chair
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I came to your great state on Oct 16 to web my beloved of 14 years... I can not think of a day that was so wonderful. Thank you for your hard work in allowing many others to feel the joy we felt, and to protect what we have
You could just post the link to the video as well: Link
Thanks for any insight anyone might have. I'm new to this and not sure how everything works yet.
This is a beautiful video
Missing from the issue is what actually constitutes a man, and a woman. It is NOT as simple as the masses think it is. There are 4 or 5 genetic conditions, in addition to transsexualism, that make this a very real question.
If you want to REALLY open a can of worms and try defending marriage as only between opposite-sexes, try proving sex! Is it defined by genetic, hormonal, physical, emotional, societal, or other factors? Force THAT issue and the opposite-sex thing will crumble because it cannot deal with legitimate exceptions.
We won't tell churches they have to perform weddings. All we want as Americans is the right to a civil contract...that is my civil right.
Remember, there was a time when Americans accepted that women should not have the right to vote. There was a time when it was accepted that the enslavement of out black brothers and sisters was legally acceptable. There was a time when it was believed that the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the theft of their property, was justifiable.
This is a civil rights issue that is no less important than voting rights.
What is at stake is whether or not we, as a nation, are to live up to the heritage left to us by our forefathers:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Isn't Obama officially against gay marriage?
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They moved away from California many years ago, but this video reminded me of how sweet and funny and thoughtful they are together. Reminds me of the first time when I was a little kid that I realized they were lesbians,that it made them "different," and that it was cool anyway.
Who cares about gender when two human adults are involved? I just don't understand the Right's obsession with these issues and why they get any credence at all. Actively targeting the relatively small number of couples that were allowed to marry is just plain persecution... I can't see any rationalization from any point of view that doesn't end up there.
This has made me very sad and very angry. Anyone have any good tips/links to where a straight couple could get more involved helping with the anti-Prop 8 cause?
Why isn't anyone in the general media lambasting Starr for his bizarre fascination with with other people's privates?
We live in Twinsburg Ohio and wish you the best of luck in invalidating this initiative.
As a word of encouragement, the pastors at my church (Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ)in Cleveland now refuse to sign state marriage certificates until they can sign them for everyone who can marry.
I encourage you to approach your church leaders to do the same. Perhaps then we can truly separate Church from State and allow all people to enjoy their inalienable rights.
Love the video and Regina Spektor is a great artist!
My partner does not have to pass any such test or "code of moral behavior" to be "acceptable" for being black.
Nor do we, as a couple, have to live by any one else's "code of moral behavior" to have the same legal right's as everyone else.
I DO NOT have to be "BORN" a homosexual man for it to be "acceptable" for me to be a homosexual man!
As well I do not have to define my relationship, or live by some one else's rule's and parameter's, to have the same legal right to "marry" as "...all men" do!
I am an American! I live under the Constitution of the U.S., with the Bill of Rights and, by the Rule of Law as set forth in the Constitution which was composed for "....ALL MEN..." as we now understand "all men" to be......ALL PEOPLE.
Freedom and Liberty is for every individual not a collective body.