Civil Rights

[asterroc]

A nice "doctored" video about civil rights. California is facing a ballot question that would make gay marriage illegal, Question 8. The Yes on 8 people put out a video w/ people talking about what's wrong w/ gay marriage, yadda yadda. And then someone took that video and replaced every mention of "same-sex" with "interracial," and "gay" with "black," even re-recording the vocal track.

I am multi-racial, and I approve.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with citizens of foreign countries whose countries recognize same-sex marriage when they come to the US. But as long as same-sex marriages are not federally recognized, even other countries that allow them are not obligated to recognize a gay marriage that took place in one of our states that allows it. The other coutries may *choose* to do so of course, but they're not required to.

FWIW I'm not sure what sort of international law actually obligates countries to recognize each others' marriages, so I could be misstating the situation. Also, it's possible that if the US abolished the federal institution of marriage and replaced it with civil unions at the federal level (rather than state level), that it would be legally viewed as the same thing internationally - I mean we don't fail to recognize French marriages just b/c they use the French word for marriage instead of our word "marriage." If civil unions were made identical(accepted federally), then they would BE identical in all legal senses.