The San Francisco Zen Center’s Statement Regarding the California State Supreme Court’s Prop. 8 Decision
by Danny Fisher
This via MahaSangha News: The San Francisco Zen Center‘s City Center Practice Committee has issued a statement regarding the California State Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold the Proposition 8 amendment to the State Constitution, banning same sex marriage:
- On Tuesday, May 26, the California Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 amendment to the State Constitution, banning same sex marriage. At the same time, it upheld the marriages of the 18,000 couples who had already been married between the previous Supreme Court case and Election Day.
For many years, San Francisco Zen Center has performed same-sex weddings as well as opposite-sex weddings, for couples interested in receiving the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts as the foundation of their marriage.
SFZC supports the right of any couple to marry, using the same ceremony and with the same spiritual foundation. We see this as a human rights issue, and want to extend our support at this time.
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“SFZC supports the right of any couple to marry …”
Oh, yeah? Including 13-year-olds? In situations where a wealthy retarded 85 year old is marrying a 24 year old diagnosed as sociopathic?
But I’m mostly unclear on why SFZC issues its statement, now. The court decision is, and must be, a legal one. If the Zen Center has a bone to pick with the legal basis of the court’s decision, then I’m listening.
If the Zen Center is touting its egalitarianism, then the statement should have come at another time.