If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
Interpretation
Life revolves around the universal need to give and receive love, and neglecting this for personal gain is futile.
Gavin Newsom's quote reflects on the fundamental nature of human existence, emphasizing that our time on Earth is limited and inherently linked to our ability to love and be loved. He warns against sacrificing this essential aspect of life for political or personal reasons, suggesting that such a life would lack meaning and fulfillment.
In practice
During a speech about community values.
Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence.
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