“USA not US Gay”?!
wow. i’m generally not one to take to the streets protest any more, but seeing this and hearing from friends that the Yes on 8 people are filling up my relative neighborhoods with screaming mormons who are hurling insults almost makes me want to get out and do some yellin’. JESUS CHRIST! (and i mean that!)
i don’t usually get this vocal about propositions, and maybe this is my “pet issue” this campaign season, but bigotry and intolerance push my buttons more than anything.
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this blog post contains links to other blog posts that are advocating Yes on Prop 8, the california proposition to change the state constitution to define marriage as ONLY between a man and a woman.
Here is a list of blogs that are FOR Prop 8 go ahead and add any others you know of in a comment, maybe your own. Let’s open the discussion let’s talk about it. Let’s clear the air. You think we are full of it, we think you are. We are angry and so are you.
a lot of what the Yes on 8 campaign is spreading isn’t true. no kindergarten teachers are going to have to start teaching “Adam and Steve” in their classrooms. domestic partnerships are NOT “separate but equal” rights. there is no such thing.
if you have the time and the inclination and support EQUAL RIGHTS, visit the list of blogs who are in support of Prop8 and make some comments to counteract the fearmongering. it’s hard to read some of the things people are writing out there. listen: i get the whole “sanctity of marriage” thing. i get that religious people don’t like the idea that “the gays” can also stand up and take an oath in a ceremony that approximates their religious one, when most of them believe gayness to be a sinful choice. i don’ t agree with it, and i think it’s close-minded and short-sighted, but i get it. i understand their logic, and it’s pretty tough to argue against, but we can try.
as bamboo nation points out, not all bloggers are preaching to the choir, and there’s a chance some minds could be changed.
~via
see also: prop8: it’s not about being gay, or married.
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this is one powerful piece of writing: An Open Letter to My Gay Friend; or Gay Marriage Is Not About Marriage.
the main point:
let’s establish something right at the outset. About the fundamental idea of marriage itself, straight or gay, I don’t give a shit. And as I said in a previous post, I’ve always been weary of same-sex marriage being the cause célèbre of the gay community. But the issue of marriage equality is something I have to support because gay marriage is not about marriage…
…Perhaps gay people are apathetic because we’re not hammering home the point that this is an important civil rights issue and, for the hundredth time, not about marriage. Look, it honestly doesn’t bother me that you don’t care about marriage rights, but, as a gay man who knows what it’s like to be teased, shunned, and discriminated against firsthand, it is your responsibility to care about civil rights.
There are people out there who want to change the law to designate an entire class of people as unequal to, as less than, every other class of people.
the poignant ending:
Small acts were what drove the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in 1955; black students faced protesters when trying to attend a white school in 1957; people marched for voting rights in 1965. These small acts defied odds; these small acts helped to change the United States of America.
The rights, benefits, and acceptance that you are allowed and that you enjoy and that you take for granted as a gay man are the result of history—history created by regular people, just like you and me, who weren’t activists or politicians or crusaders. They were people who came out of the closet decades before us in a time when it was social suicide to do so; they were high school students who met opposition when they tried to start gay-straight alliances to foster tolerance at their schools; and they are the millions of people, gay and straight, who will vote no on Proposition 8 on November 4, 2008. The latter act is indeed a modest act, but one that will have far-reaching ramifications. One vote may be a footnote in our lives, but that footnote will explain how we stood up for what is fair, what is just, and what is humane. The story of lives tell our history; the footnotes give us depth.
why do i care so much about this, you might ask, as someone who a) isn’t into marriage and b) isn’t gay?
this is why. this isn’t about marriage, or about being gay. this is about equal rights. and i am into equal rights. for everyone.
again, please give even just $5 to the No on 8 campaign, even if you don’t live in California. letting this proposition pass is a cultural slide backwards that we can’t afford to take.
on a lighter note:
During his recent stopover at the Castro Theatre, John Waters quipped that if gays are denied the right to marry, then heterosexuals should be denied the right to divorce. –flavorpill
HA!
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due to a huge surge in support and donations conservative and religious groups from around the nation, the inconceivable seems possible: a california state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage could pass. therefore, the NO ON 8 campaign needs your help:
if you have any money you can contribute (just $5!), please give to the campaign. Out-of-staters can contribute too!!! if you support gay (and all minority/non-white-hetero not to mention regular old privacy/civil) rights, consider donating to the California campaign, because if this passes in CA, its sets a precedent and the domino effect on other states, and on other civil rights, will be huge.
the Courage Campaign has created a video called “Gender Auditors”. It’s a more libertarian “keep the government out of your pants” message (instead of a gay/equal rights argument) for voting “No on Prop 8″ to target conservative voters who might have been swayed by the “yes on 8″ misleading campaign. true “small government” stays out of your pants!
f/u media footnote:
Class surprises lesbian teacher on wedding day, people accuse parents and teacher of using students as pawns in a political fight (see comments on this article; also, the number of comments that had to be removed, presumably for being hate speech, is pretty disturbing.)
the question here is whether the parents/people angry about allowing these children to attend their teacher’s gay wedding is whether those same people would be angry/offended if the children were taken out of school to attend their teacher’s STRAIGHT wedding. if you think it would be ok for the straight wedding but not the gay wedding, you’re prejudiced and you do not believe in equal rights. open your heart.
Filed in politics and news, things you can do | Tagged with prop8 | Comment (0)and the greatest of these is love.
what a beautiful video. NO ON PROP 8.
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