Hello, my name isK.

MY VITALS

Occupation: Tech Industry drone Associations/Affiliations/Clubs:How about: "Cosplay.com"? :) Hometown: Somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area Heroes: People who overcome great odds to do the right thing anyway Current Location: California Guilty Pleasure: Sleeping in and snuggling with my beloved, waking up to a mug of hot chocolate and our dogs lying at the foot of the bed. :) (This rarely happens: we work very hard, we are raising kids, etc...)

The best word to describe me is:Suburban Working Mom, with a fairly highly special-needs child (hence I am not always available to participate here online. Life happens.)

Favorite historical movement:Women's Suffrage and the 1960's Civil Rights Movement (the latter of which I'm actually old enough to personally remember...)

My inspiration:Justice and Equality for my Friends and Family

I Joined the Impact because...Discrimination and second-class citizenship is WRONG. Discrimination against decent, law-abiding citizens whose "terrible crime" is simply falling in love with other consenting adults who happen to have "similar plumbing" as themselves is VERY WRONG.

I have been married for 26 years to a person I love dearly. I happen to be a woman, and he happens to be a man - a man of *gasp!* a so-called "different race". In 1967, The Loving Decision ensured that my interracial marriage was possible, for which I am deeply grateful, and if interracial marriage were still not legal, I would definitely be fighting very hard for my civil right to marry the person I love.

Falling in love with my husband was not a "choice" for me - it simply happened. I fell in love with a PERSON, and I didn't pick him for his "plumbing". Likewise, who my gay and lesbian friends fall in love with is not a "choice". Their marriages harm absolutely NO ONE, and greatly benefit the children they choose to have.

Prop 8 is an assault on the TRUE modern meaning of marriage - the ultimate commitment to each other that a loving couple can make; to be there for each other and support each other "in sickness and in health, 'till death do they part", etc. Having faced so many huge obstacles to reach that ultimate expression of commitment and love, the married gay and lesbian people I know cherish, uphold and seriously honor their marriage vows MUCH more than so many heterosexuals in this world of "Brittney Spears' 55-hour marriage" and "quickie divorce".

Gay marriage is already legalized in (and hasn't done any harm to!) the countries of:

....Oh. Yes, I do happen to be married. Did I happen to mention my personal "orientation"? Hm: No, I didn't. --- Does it matter? SHOULD it matter? I believe the answer to both questions ought to be a resounding "NO". So there.

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