Marriage and Immigration
This is a Letter to the Editor from the Boston Globe regarding same-sex marriage and immigration rights. Send your own letter using our etool.
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Immigration woes can leave same-sex gains out of reach
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As one half of a long-term same-sex couple, I have been watching the developments in California with interest, hoping that the scales have begun to tip in favor of nationwide marriage equality for gays and lesbians. However, I am now following these developments from Toronto, where my partner and I moved this year from Boston. Despite the pioneering legislation in Massachusetts that preceded that in California, I was not able to sponsor my Spanish partner for immigration to the United States, and I won’t be as long as the federal Defense of Marriage Act continues to prohibit it. [read more]
Very well said Erin.
Comment by SeaMex — June 26, 2008 @ 8:19 am
It’s a good letter. Thanks for writing it, Erin. I think we should all write to our local newspapers to tell them our stories and about UAFA. Just get our voices out and UAFA more known. I wrote to my local newspaper, the Honolulu Advertiser, two weeks ago (a similar letter to this one), but they didn’t publish it. I had emailed back and forth with the letters editor, but she said the letter is too long (even though it fell within their length requirements). I also sent variations of my letter to several big newspapers on the Mainland (L.A., San Francisco and New York), but they didn’t publish it either. Finally I got lucky with the Honolulu Weekly, who published it in full length this week. They edited it slightly (and by doing that edited in some mistakes), but hey, at least my work wasn’t for nothing. Please everybody, write a letter to your local paper. What a better moment than now because of the recent debate about the issue that started after California brought the issue into the foreground.
Comment by Sandra — June 26, 2008 @ 12:26 pm