A Million Votes No

I stand here today to represent

The straight or not parents

And lovers and friends

Of those who simply want

To love whom they love

To walk their own paths

To bear one another’s burdens

To share each other’s lives

I wait here today for

The straight or not parents

Aunts uncles and cousins

And brothers and sisters

And lovers and friends

Of those who simply want

To love whom they love

To walk their own paths

To bear one another’s burdens

To share each other’s lives

I come here today to celebrate

Those who simply want

To love whom they love

To walk their own paths

To bear one another’s burdens

To share one another’s lives

And I call upon

Their straight or not parents

Aunts uncles and cousins

And brothers and sisters

And children and partners

And lovers and friends

To rise up and defeat those -

Including the politicians and preachers -

Who are strangely afraid

To let them love whom they love

And walk their own paths

And bear one another’s burdens

And share each other’s lives

- Doug Loyd