On the California Supreme Court Ruling

There are times I'm ashamed of my fellow Americans. The very negative response to the California Supreme Court's ruling that marriage equality was a right under the state Constitution just amazes me.

In all reality, the rights of full equality - inclusive of all Americans, not just some or most - is the purpose of our nation's Constitution as well. It is also embodied in our Declaration of Independence - that ALL [...] are created equal.

Why are so many people afraid of letting everybody live their lives, free of interference from government, church or society? If one person has a right, should not everybody have it as well? How selfish to think that liberty should ever be exclusive.

When I was a child, I loved what I understood America to be. I believed in it then, with the innocence an naivete of a child. As I grew older, I began to see that what I believed in was as real as Neverland, or Wonderland. Or Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. I realized that only one word suffice to define all of these things: lie.

But I'm realizing something else. That we have all been deceived and thus disillusioned by that lie. So, in response, we fail to accept the power of the words which built our nation. We the People no longer hold the power in this country, so we grab at straws, believing it's right to allow a majority to take away the rights of a minority. That a judicial system put in place to ensure the rights of the minority are not denied by the democratic process must be "activist judges" when they are simply doing their duty as proscribed in the Constitution.

If only our electoral system works as smoothly as voting for constitutional amendment to take away from our neighbors, families and friends.

But be cautious: in trying to vote in Constitutional amendments, you set a precedence. What if all the non-white Americans chose to unite against the white Americans. They nearly have the majority, and we white folks tend to blow off voting. You could wake of after election day with no rights at all. Bet you'll be wishing you hadn't gotten rid of all those "activist judges," won't you?

But the "battle" over marriage rights does not belong in the states. It's a federal right - a civil right.

And I will continue to fight for the America I loved as a child. Fight to bring true "liberty and justice" - and equality - "for all."