Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – It was 1963 – just 45 years ago today – that Governor George Wallace stood in a campus doorway while attempting to exclude two black students from the University of Alabama. Telling people that they’re too dumb to…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – A Field Poll of 1,052 registered California voters asked “Do you approve or disapprove of California allowing homosexuals to marry members of their own sex?” and for the first time since 1977 – when California’s law was changed…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Eddie Walker, the principal of Irmo High School in Columbia, S.C., announced he will resign from his post after the district approved a gay-straight alliance that supposedly conflicts with his religious beliefs. “Allowing the formation of this club…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I am so happy that the State Supreme Court made an enlightened ruling guided by Republican judges that cannot be overturned except by changing our very Constitution to specifically Limit Marriage. Our forefathers thought that religious and personal…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – On the grand scale of “people doing mean things to other people,” banning same-sex couples from marriage seems pretty insignificant. But with Friday’s death of Mildred Loving, I was reminded of how cruel people can be. Mrs. Loving,…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I still need your help again to fix the language on California EDD Form DE1-HW. I wrote to you in July 2007 complaining about the checkbox for HUS/WIFE. As members of a California Registered Domestic Partnership trying to…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Charles Chesnutt was born in 1858 to two “free persons of color.” This heterosexually-married couple offered to sell their son to slavery, but could only get $23 for him, and turned down the deal. In the new movie…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – I just read about Synchronized Swimming sensation Kenyon Smith of the Santa Clara Aquamaids. A man in a women’s sport, his ability to advance is hampered not by his ability, but by his gender: college scholarships and Olympic…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 23 part (2) says: (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal…Read More »
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – Nobel Prize Winner and former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has weighed in on the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage. “I am deeply, deeply distressed that in the face of the most horrendous problems — we’ve got poverty,…Read More »