2014CV30833 ORDER Denying Stay

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55. heh, here I am, almost 35 years married to a beautiful woman

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. . . wanting so much for everyone to have the opportunity to marry; a right which was never in doubt for us.

I never even had to worry about barriers to my interracial marriage, although I can read about those barriers in history books and have the benefit of some anecdotal accounts of that discrimination. In my own life experience, issues of equality and rights were always broad concepts which centered on race, but weren't limited to that one defense.

To me, equality must be about everyone's rights, or the notion fails on its own logic. Gender rights, disabled rights, LGBT rights are all woven with the same cloth of our humanity that covered and embraced the struggle for racial equality. Equality for all is a natural expectation for me; as much as my own race demands access to the same benefits, privileges, and respect that many others may take for granted.

I am privileged to learn from folks here - expanding my own insular understanding and sensitizing me to their own expectations, and even to my own slights and misunderstandings; appreciating even the harshest criticisms I've received here.

I can't wait until the day that this injustice is relegated to the history books. It shouldn't be too much longer; even less if we all pull and push together.