"Summer of Loving" by Roy Zimmerman

[pelataanpa]

"Cause no state can legislate

The human heart"

The best argument ever. Thanks Roy!

[TouchOfGreatness]

What a great song. Thanks for the good work Roy!

[joineecleary]

my song of the month, i reckon.

love you, Roy. you're an inspiration to bespectacled YouTube guitarists everywhere!

[LarksSaviour900]

And so are you Will :) x

[TouchOfGreatness]

Keep writing and singing, 2009-Oct-16: "Civil rights advocates in eastern Louisiana are calling for a justice of the peace of Tangipahoa Parish to resign after he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple."

[mollificent]

Roy just gets more and more topical! :D

[realitychckr]

Great song! I'm voting NO on 1, November 3rd in Maine, for marriage equality!

[ArianneHermida]

Today is National Coming Out Day. I think we've found a theme song for this holiday.

[RoyZimFan]

I love this song, and I think this is my favorite version of it. The other one has a great sound and is very polished, but I think that this one has more heart!

[tolkienmccloud]

By the way I know most people who watch this video are going to give me the thumbs down. Thereby proving that any dissention will be squashed. Be glad you live in a country that allows you to be who you are and believe what you believe. Of course many of you want to make many of us anti gay marriage disappear.

[cjrsoccer1]

tolkienmccloud -

That's some serious self-aggrandizement. Thinking that a handful of people clicking a 'thumbs down' button on a youtube comment = proof that any dissention will be squashed?

Yikes.

[tolkienmccloud]

I think comparing racial marriages and gay marriages is over the top. Good for the voters of California to fight this. Sad to see the others lose and go straight to judges to have their will imposed. I will never understand why homosexuals would want to marry. Just live together if that is what you want to do. The truth of the matter is that they want their lifestyle to be viewed as normal. Most people will never truly view it as normal though no matter what legislation they have changed.

[AbbeyNormal]

"I will never understand why homosexuals would want to marry."

Hint: Because they're human beings just like you.

[CarolBlanchard1]

I think the comparison of interracial marriage and gay marriage is spot on. Gay marriage is fueled by the same kind of ignorance and fear that interracial marriage was, and in some instances unfortunately, still is, thus the comparison. As for why they want to marry--they want to marry for the same reasons straight people want to: Love, commitment, and certain civil rights that are not afforded them otherwise. You are right though, everyone is entitled to their opinions. No thumbs down from me.

[kenandkids]

@CarolBlanchard1 What truly upsets me is the fact that black people who lived during Loving v. Virginia and remember the segregation and prejudice held up the exact same signs a few decades later to discriminate against others. The wording was even the same: "unnatural," "unholy," "against god's will," etc..

[gggrow]

good message to this one. and amazing song.

[seanusmonkey]

A beautiful opinion given a beautiful sound. Thank you for that, I rather enjoyed it.

[mollificent]

This song just makes me so damn happy!

[ArianneHermida]

Oh jeez, I didn't catch the joke behind "Grab a white dress or a tux / It ain't nobody's business who a person marries" until last night at the show in Tucson. I thought being an adolescent means that my mind is stuck in the gutter.

[cjrsoccer1]

Roy's been brushing up on his Supreme Court history! Well done sir!

The funny part of Loving is that it overturned a previous case that basically said "Outlawing interracial marriage isn't discriminatory, b/c it affects blacks & whites equally. Blacks can't marry whites, and whites can't marry blacks! What could be more fair than that?" 

I suspect that future generations will look back with similar incredulity at the current status of gay marriage.

[hardinmichael1981]

@cjrsoccer1 opponents of marriage equality make basically the same arguments today. I have heard people actually tell me that "men can't marry men and women can't marry women. therefore, everyone is treated equally." 8 - |

[Aur0rah]

THANK Y0OU THIS RULES.

[kayoglass]

VERY COOOL!

[szrgirl]

I like when you sing in the lower key, Roy. It's a nice change! ;-)

This is great as a duet.

[katieincolorado]

Wow, Roy, you really speak the truth!  Or sing it rather! :) Good job.

[LovesEssence1]

roy, i am a new fan! your lyrics are brilliant, funny, while sending important messages. love your voice too! keep it up, you are great! :D

[Palzette]

Roy, this is now one of my favorites, added to Psychedelic Relic, Defenders of Marriage, and To Be a Liberal. But I love all the brilliant songs composed by the team of Zimmerman and Harby. Thanks for adding so much entertainment and joy to my life. Love from your favorite Santa Cruz Groupie.

[art101tv]

Brilliant, Roy, as usual. Kudos to Ms Love. Further, ever further.

[nickgorton]

Awesome. Powerful. And I think I actually like it better than Jerry Falwell's God... which says a lot!

[achievist]

Another gem by Roy. Laura is such a sweetheart!

The satire is always there, but this song is heartwarming on so many levels, I don't know where to start.

Best part:

"We can love who we love

Til death do us part

Cause no state can legislate

The human heart"

Words of gold, Roy. Words of gold.

[Lupinssupins]

No, their wives did NOT think much of it. Wives (& children) of those on the DL (& that's not disabled list, baseball fans) are one reason gay marriage must be not only legal, but ACCEPTED for "full faith & credit," AND to employers, voters & adoption agencies. Let these men be "Proud Gay Americans" BEFORE they create & deceive false-front families.Think how far we've come since'67! Change CAN happen. Just stop wasting time trashing air-head beauty queens & deal w/ opinion leaders who matter!

[texphile]

Lovely harmony and a lovely sentiment as well. Another winner Roy!

[ratatosk1]

most ad that I loved Lauras voice

[MatthewBain]

Maybe your best song ever. And that's saying something! Excellent work!!

[mollificent]

Laura is having WAY too much fun here. :D

[frezno109]

Great work, Roy. Great work!

[ratatosk1]

The best Roy Zimmerman song I`v ever heard! And I love his songs. Thank you from Norway Roy!!

[TheLogicalGod]

Such a good song

[HalfMooner]

Another in a long line of powerful, moving, and fun Zimmerman songs. Great work, Roy and Laura!

[JoonasFinland]

This made my day.

[fuzzzzzyllama]

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AND

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The universe works in strange ways.

[Chandler27]

I have a single muslims dating site :S

[art101tv]

Great comment, fuzzzzzyllama. But it's not the universe working in strange ways... it's more like YouTube and its corporate master, Google, shoving ads at us when we're simply trying to watch a video.

It's hard to trust YouTube/Google these days. We're all assaulted by ads at every click. Maybe Google should revisit it's corporate 'do no evil' mission statement.

[fuzzzzzyllama]

art101tv -

Um... I don't consider myseld assaulted by ads at every click. They're a bit annoying, but I don't think they're incredibly distracting.

[fuzzzzzyllama]

Aww... this song is so touching.

Happy Gay Pride Month, y'all!

[fuzzzzzyllama]

Hmm... Just kidding about my "Happy Gay Pride Month" comment. That's actually in June.

I feel ignorant.

[niakitten]

I hope you'll someday post chords for this. My fingers are itching. :)

[singingnymph]

It's so ironic to me that it's legal to marry your 1st cousin in about half the states, but most states still consider homosexual marriage somehow immoral.

[chalkies]

That's a really cute song :)

[quirkiealone]

love it!

[mollificent]

I am SO learning that harmony. :D

Love hearing Love singing "Loving!"

[wdciii]

Laura Love ROCKS!!!! and Roy's not so bad either :-) -Dennis

[CrawTheWarriorKing]

Love the song and love the point but I'm getting tired of people bringing the mormons into the prop 8 arguement. Sure they contributed but it was all of maybe 2% of the total budget. C'mon now people, they're a religion, the title doesn't exactly imply that they're geniuses. Besides, isn't what they do with their money their perogative. What pisses me off is a populous ignorant enough to actually vote through such an asinine and pompous idea as telling somone who they can and can't marry.

[jlmww]

They can do what they want with their money

BUT

no one should be permitted to prevent sane adults from doing what they want with their own lives, no matter how much money they have to spend in the process.

[CrawTheWarriorKing]

Touche. Unfortunately, stupidity seems to be a by-product of the human condition. Thusly, there is always a stupid rich person willing to devote their gains to projects concocted by other stupid people.

[SuperDSlay]

Too bad there isn't a country-wide legal definition of sanity.

[AbbeyNormal]

It's not that they put more money in than anybody else, it was that they were the driving force behind the movement to get it passed. They aggressively (and dishonestly) pushed it as a choice between other people's rights and yours, and scared religious people fell for it.

[Gleamchaser]

I love Laura Love and I love this song! Awesome as usual!

[GoddessOfSnakes]

It sounded very rich with the extra voice. Great song.

[Neeboopsh]

i wish roy would take a trip up to canada, and more specifically somewhere in the middle :) i'd go see him.

[GoblinXXX]

"Act was spelled with 3 K's, for some reason..."

[KingCrimson776]

Nice

[Deadboltt]

Beautiful.

[AbbeyNormal]

This brightened up my no-so-great-up-to-now day, thanks Roy and Laura!

3:10: I've heard Orson Scott Card use this very argument. It was surreal.

[kja30]

Another awesome, relevant, and hilarious song Roy. Keep it up!

[thatchereffect]

I always love your stuff.

[wutzernutzer]

I love this quote from Whoopi Goldberg: "If you have a problem with gay marriage, don't marry one".

Great song Roy. Love the extra voice on this one!

[2ndviolin]

The extra voice definitely enriched the sound.

Hmm...what if a man has multiple husbands?

[GoddessOfSnakes]

Polyhomo?

I don't actually know...but that sounds somewhat real.

[rnistuk]

Another fantastic song! I look forward to your visit to Vancouver!

[vigwig]

Great song (as usual) and you're voice is sounding fine Roy.

[JesusSavesAtCitibank]

"No state can legislate the human heart."

Best line of the lyrics. That's what it's all about, and is exactly why the anti-human nature of religious dogma will always fail in the end.

[Safely]

I totally agree. :)

[Wilberbeest]

So so soooo good. I raise my martini in solidarity.  :-)

[Xerxes4242]

whoa that's a girl?

[Hereticbooks]

Another great on, Roy! Brilliant!!

[takerdust]

boring

[bigbro44]

Brilliant...as always!!!

[baudiirocz]

"Find a white dress or a tux. It ain't nobodies business who a person...MARRIES"

BRILLIANT!

[GentleJuan]

The best song ever! im loving it!! =D just awesome!

[CarolBlanchard1]

This one really blew me away, but I think the guys at the end said it all......WOW!!

[Ocker3]

think there needed to be some more warmup for the song, but excellent lyrics.

[kaburto1966]

Fived, faved & forwarded ~

[benjkitz]

Amazing, as always. Your commentaries on same sex marriage make up some of you funniest pieces.

It's just a shame that they're relevant in the first place.

[timestarvedcd]

This is another Zimmerman fav.

[johncrwarner]

excellent as always - good song and good social comment LOL

[SuperAtheistBrothers]

Good song, and even a better message. Brilliant.

[WineisyourFriend]

I'm sure glad that you're going to hell like me. There's gonna be some great music around the lake of fire. Of course...we'll have to put up with Yoko...she's going to hell fro breaking up the Beatles.

[Matt6554]

Rock on, Roy! Gj, Laura!

[enigmatically]

only 40 views? this rocks, I am favoriting ;)

[Qusha10]

have you seen the rest of his stuff?

FOR IT IS ALL SWEET AS HELL

[mak1759]

some one should send this to NOM.... maybe just maybe they might get it ....ok ok i'm a Chief's fan too but one can hope

[Opsomaniac]

I love your songs :).

[Cafeeine]

Thanks for uploading this Roy,

[anmoose]

Awesome performance of this! The two of you sound great together. And a song that's (unfortunately) just as meaningful now as it was the day it was written.

Will this human race ever learn?.....

[pinochet222]

I'm loving your amazing work, Roy Zimmerman

[noliketoregister]

Always good to hear a new Roy Zimmerman tune.

[bhig3]

completely agreed.

Good song Roy!