Saturday, May 30, 2009

Maya Angelou on Marriage Equality

As reported in the 5/28/2009 NYT:

Ms. Angelou said she felt compelled to speak out because she believes that legalizing same-sex marriage is a matter of social fairness — a subject that has been a theme of her writing.

“I would ask every man and every woman who’s had the blessing of having children, ‘Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?’ ” she said.

Ms. Angelou said she believed that society made gay relationships hard enough without the added burden of making marriage illegal.

“To love someone takes a lot of courage,” she said. “So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, ‘I forbid you from loving this person’?”

2 comments:

ROBERTA said...

Angelou is an Angel, isn't she?

KJ said...

When one has known a selfless love for another, it is difficult to understand why one would deny that for another.