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“Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples.”
- Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker
The past week has been pretty amazing. The August long weekend played host to Vancouver’s Pride celebrations and my engagement to my partner; and yesterday saw the repealing of Proposition 8 by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. Each event alone is significant because they all celebrate our basic rights to freedom, equality, and love, but together they represent the power of diversity at its best.
Today was the first ‘last seminar’ of the four that I’ve been taking this semester at the university. They call this one Professional Seminar, or Prosem for short. The goal of our particular prosem was to examine diversity and how it affects our ability to create inclusive classrooms for our students. To accomplish this, we’ve conducted a cultural fair and participated in group presentations on readings from the book, Talking About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity, and Language by Carl E. James and Adrienne Shadd.
The retrospective continues after the jump…
