I Support Marriage equality: My evolution

by Ralph Watkins
from: It’s the Church

My wife, Vanessa, and I moved from Augusta Georgia to Pasadena California in 2005. Prior to our moving to California I hadn’t taken the time to ponder the question of marriage equality. During our time in Augusta I was more concerned with issues like underfunded public education, the prison industrial complex, unjust wars fought by brown, black and poor young adults, the creation of a permanent under class and the continuing legacies’ of classism, racism and sexism.

After living in California for a few years marriage equality was put on my list of major social justice issues that had to be addressed. As Proposition 8 came to be a center of conversation in California in 2008 I was in the conversation. I began to listen to the arguments for and against the initiative. I was compelled to be a part of the conversation because so many of my friends and church members in California were affected by the outcome of this initiative and so was I. I refused to be content to sit back and hold onto my reified position. I had to engage the issue and process where God was calling me to stand in 2008.
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