Woman Tribune has a Brand New Look!

The color scheme, the layout, everywhere you look, Woman Tribune looks a little different! After a few days of diligently working on our new look, we are proud to launch our new look! So what do you think, love it? Hate it? See something a little wonky that we need to fix? Don’t hesitate to contact us with your input and also what you would like to see implemented on Woman Tribune in the future. Use the contact form here to send your emails and you just may see your message in an upcoming edition of You Said It!

What? You Said It? Whatever is that!? Well, You Said It is a new addition to Woman Tribune that we’re over-the-moon happy to announce.

We want you input! Whatever you have to say, we want to hear about it! We are all ears! As a reader of Woman Tribune, you probably have thoughts and opinions about every aspect of the site–The functionality, the look, the posts, and you may even have an idea for a post that you would like to see here or an addition to our network that you would like to see us add. Whatever it is, we want you to send us a message by filling out your name, email and typing your message in the form located in the sidebar to your right. Once a month, we will go through all of the messages you sent us and put together a little segment called You Said It, sharing what you said to us with all of our readers.

What are you waiting for? Start sending those messages!

You Said It: Every American Deserves the Right to Marry

An email was received regarding our post on the recent victory for the LGBT community in California, saying that denying lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgendered people the right to marry was unconstitutional.

In Every American Deserves the Right to Marry, a news article of the Million for Marriage petition put together by the Human Rights Campaign, received some negative feedback that I feel the need to address, especially considering the woman who sent this email did not leave her correct email address in order for me to reply personally and so, Letter to the Editor was born!

This, in conjunction with our first edition of You Said It, is an open call for letters from you, the readers, to express your positive and negative thoughts on anything that is posted or discussed on Woman Tribune.

Name: Denise
Subject: Protest!

Wow. You just lost me as a subscriber over your article about everyone having the right to be married in America. I can’t be a supporter of gay marriage or support anyone who does. I think we’re missing the bigger picture here. Yeah, it’s great that we have freedom in America but we’re still supposed to abide by God’s laws. He’s probably in heaven shuddering over what a mess this world is making of his intention for marriage. The Bible clearly states that “man” and “woman” should unite. Nothing else.

Denise,

I am very sorry that you feel the need to email me and express your outrage over the recent article on Million For Marriage. I am even more sorry that you are insanely close-minded and are not willing to give every American the basic right to marry the person whom they love and want to spend their lives with.

The aim I have always had for Woman Tribune, as a blog and as a community, is that it appeals to all women and that includes lesbian, bisexual and transgendered women; all of whom exist in America. If your god was so unhappy about this, why would he make such people to begin with?

Marriage, as it exists now, has changed a bit since the times of dowries and marrying a person whom your parents chose for you. Marriage today has a lot of other factors to take into consideration such as your life partner being in a hospital and you not being able to know about their condition or see them because you are not “family.” The same applies for funeral arrangements, tax purposes, health care benefits, and before you go getting your panties in a bunch over these facts–A man and a woman walk into marriage with the same intentions in mind.

Furthermore, I am not sorry in the least to have lost you, or anyone for that matter, as a subscriber. Woman Tribune is intended for all women and all women should benefit from the articles that are posted; however, I for one will never condemn a woman or tell a woman that she is wrong for simply loving and wanting to marry another woman.

Your god is most likely shuddering in whatever heaven you believe exists by the true hypocrisy that is coursing through the veins of his so-called followers; those who are Sunday believers or are religious when it is convenient as well as those who hold up a book that was written and can be closely compared to the telephone game–What once were “facts” passed down again and again and suddenly what was written may not even closely resemble the history. Thank you for your email, for you have just given me the satisfaction a million times over for simply expressing not only my views, but the views of so many other Americans today in posting that article.

Sincerely,
Holly Ord