BERKELEY CAMPUS MINISTRY URGES NO VOTE ON PROP 8

10/28/2008

Unitarian Universalist Campus Ministry at Cal
2441 LeConte Avenue,
Berkeley, CA 94709

Media Contact: Sean Honea, Co-Campus Minister
Email: BerkeleyUU@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.uucb.org/ya/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BERKELEY CAMPUS MINISTRY URGES NO VOTE ON PROP 8

As a Unitarian Universalist raised in a faith tradition,
As a college undergraduate who supports equality,
As a Unitarian Universalist attending seminary,
As a religious leader,

My faith teaches that those that work towards limiting the expression of love work against the greatest commandment from the ministry of Jesus, the poetry of Rumi and the great religious traditions of the world; that we do not deny to others the love we seek in our own lives.

I believe that denying the civil right to marriage creates a tiered society, turning thousands into second-class citizens.

I believe all couples should have the right to have their marriage recognized by friends, family, and the community, as well as the state.

I believe everyone has the right to have their dream of finding someone fulfilled if only by allowing them the right to hope.

I believe no state has the power to institutionalize prejudice; separate is never equal.

That is why the Unitarian Universalist Campus Ministry at UC Berkeley urges everyone who believes that our country is a land of equal opportunity to vote no on Prop 8.

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Abstaining from Love

Abstaining from Love
by me, just now.

"If I can choose not to have sex
until I am married, why can't they
abstain from being gay," she said,
my fellow seminarian, years before we graduated
with our BAs. She to the right and I too the left,
literally as I set out from the radical school on the West Coast,
she the remained on the East -- South East
-- the cradle from which we were both born.

I counseled, you have your dream that you will find
someone and a good chance that your family will
recognize him if your love in true, and even if it's not
the State will, so long as you pay the fee for a paper license.

You abstain in anticipation of fulfillment. You suppress yourself
to give more one hopeful day to the one man, dream that is meant for you.

Yet, you are still you. Not changed, completed.
Would you deny that to a man that loves a man or a trans
who loves a trans as you dream to love a man, or a woman
that loves a woman wishing for a child as you wished and wish.

Kristin, love gives before it takes.
And the more you wish to take away
from that which you do not love, but fear
the less you will have to give to Him.

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