Prop 8 and our own liminal space

It seems that many of my colleagues and friends in the academic universes that I travel are grieved by the decision today by the California Supreme Court to let Prop 8 stand, while at the same time allow the existing 18K marriages stand as well. Victor Turner, who posited on the idea that we all need a communal space of acceptance to flourish as full members of any coherent community, also coined the idea of “liminality” meaning that there is a point in everyone’s life where they are outside the circle, they are in-between-things, and that space is never supposed to be permanent, because it risks making permanent the outside status of any given group of people…what our brethren don’t get, not at all, is that we cannot continue to allow, what one my esteemed colleagues called, “spiritual violence” to occur to any community outside our circle…until we get that, and we move toward a communitas with the GLBT community, we don’t do justice…period.