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Lt Sulu is Getting Married

sophia8

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George Takei is getting married to his partner of 21 years:
As a Japanese American, I am keenly mindful of the subtle and not so subtle discrimination that the law can impose. During World War II, I grew up imprisoned behind the barbed wire fences of U.S. internment camps. Pearl Harbor had been bombed and Japanese Americans were rounded up and incarcerated simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. Fear and war hysteria swept the nation. A Presidential Executive Order directed the internment of Japanese Americans as a matter of national security. Now, with the passage of time, we look back and see it as a shameful chapter of American history. President Gerald Ford rescinded the Executive Order that imprisoned us. President Ronald Reagan formally apologized for the unjust imprisonment. President George H.W. Bush signed the redress payment checks to the survivors. It was a tragic and dark taint on American history.

With time, I know the opposition to same sex marriage, too, will be seen as an antique and discreditable part of our history. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy remarked on same sex marriage, "Times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper, in fact, serve only to oppress."
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www.georgetakei.com
 
Ok, good for him.

There, you got a response! Happy now? :D
Oh I see another two have joined.
 
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OK, we need to ban gay marriage right the hell now. So long as my fantasy of someday becoming a man so I can do George Takei persists, I can not allow him to be tied to another.
 
Ah nevermind. I just looked at his site. God, they look so happy.

Alas.

I'll hold out for a honeymoon tape, I guess.
 
I can't wait for all the "aft thrusters ahead" jokes...





Seriously, this is great. Another milestone for Star Trek and those involved.
 
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I was thrilled when I read this! I am about to get married soon, and the experience has thus far been unimaginable. To deny anyone the access to this fun, frustrating, joyful and exciting experience is cruel and hateful. I am glad California finally stepped up and did the right thing.

Go George!!!!
 
Just yesterday, I was flipping around the AM band and heard a caller state that if gay marriage is accepted then we will be unable to defend laws prohibiting pedophilia. I live in a country in which there is a measurable percentage of people who are so stupid that they believe that permitting gay marriage will lead to the legalization of child sexual abuse.

I wish Mr. Takei happiness and I wish America could be a place where all people are accepted.
 
May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless his marriage.
 
What kind of a world would it be if we allow people of the same sex who love each other with all their heart to get married? I shudder at the thought!

I'm a big Howard Stern fan and George Takei joins the cast for several weeks a year and George is such an intelligent, kind, funny man. He's a fan favorite.

I'm very happy for him.
 
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