Saturday, March 22, 2014

"Because Fear Eats the Soul..."

Today the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted Michigan's Governor and Attorney General's emergency motion for a temporary stay of yesterday's ruling bringing marriage equality to the state.

It was incredibly exciting this morning to watch as hundreds of our gay brothers and sisters in loving and committed relationships (some, decades long) lined up outside of those county clerks offices across the state who voluntarily opened on Saturday to afford those who have been denied their rights for so long the opportunity to fulfill the precious desires of their hearts and marry the ones they love.

Although the temporary stay means that no more licenses are likely to be issued on Monday or Tuesday, we should know by Wednesday if the court will extend its temporary order during the appeal.  It is possible that the court may lift the temporary stay on Tuesday and marriages may be able to begin again on Wednesday.

After the joyful exhilaration of yesterday's historic ruling and the happiness of those who waited in the cold for their place in line at the county clerks offices this morning, it is disheartening to think that justice must endure even another moments delay, but this much I do know, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said:
"I'm not in despair, because I know that there is a moral order. I haven't lost faith, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." 

Let this song remind us that the struggle for equality has always been long and hard, but that a change is going to come...



"Fear Eats the Soul"


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