Feb 16 2008 stamps of love

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger -

Since the United States Post Office announced a rate increase on first class postage, I took a quick look through the stamps that I've been using to write to you.

There's a Gerald R. Ford stamp symbolizing the days where Republican meant getting out of people's lives, a Black Heritage stamp with Charles W. Chesnutt symbolizing both the struggle for civil rights against pigheaded politicians and the fact that we don't have a Lesbian and Gay stamp yet, and vintage mahogany Speedboats from the 1920's that remind me that there are people who have been "shacking up" together almost that long who still cannot get married.

There's "Alpine Tundra" in the Nature of America series that reminds me us that this land belongs to all of us (not just the heterosexuals), "Pollination" with the message that you don't need to be married to get pregnant and have children, and a "Mendez vs. Westminster 1947 - Towards Equality in our Schools" stamp reminding us that the system works and change is possible.

"Jury Duty" celebrates the fact that gay people perform their civic duties just the same as the straights (even though they can't get married to the person that they love like the straights) while Super Heroes reminds me of your days as The Terminator when you used to stand up for freedom from tyranny and Oppression.

And the LOVE stamp reminds me that all that we need to get the freedom to marry is your change of heart. Yes, we need you to tell the people that should be deciding who to marry instead of who can marry. That's the only defense against a bad Supreme Court decision and a really bad Constitutional amendment proposition to permanently ban my marriage.

While I'm looking forward to the new 42-cent stamps, I hope they will bring a change of heart along with them.

Yours,

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[signab43]

If you don't want to watch my videos, don't watch my videos. If you don't want to get gay married, don't get gay married. Just stop excluding same-sex couples from marriage, and I'll stop making videos!

[inkydinkydooky]

Fella, you have way too many videos that nobody wants to look at.