LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Friday, October 19, 2007
Category: Opinion
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Comments (Marriage Ban in
California Then and Now
Scott, thanks for your excellent article in the Daily Californian (“Why Not Marriage for All?” Oct. 15). My mother, who is Chinese American, was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley back when California law prohibited people of different races from getting married. She still remembers the day when one of her classmates from the Chinese students club had to leave the state to get married, simply because she had fallen in love with someone of a different race. Luckily, by the time my parents met at UC Berkeley, the California Supreme Court had become the first state supreme court to overturn such discriminatory laws, and my parents got married at International House on campus.
Now, a generation later, I cannot get married, because my partner of the last 20 years is another man. We look forward to the day when all loving couples are treated equally, and everyone is free to marry the person they love.
Stuart Gaffney
San Francisco
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