Prop 8..

I'm tired of slapping my own forehead when it's other peoples' I should be slapping.


For those of you who don't know, my state of California just passed a proposition banning gay marriage and nulling previous unions between gay people.


Here's the headline I just read signing into my e-mail:

Gay Advocates Protest Marriage Ban




First: There is no such thing as a "gay advocate". Some people are gay. They don't need anyone to advocate them being who they are. By the logic that someone can be a "gay advocate", I could be a "black advocate", a "sunrise advocate", or a "vagina advocate". I.e. some people have brown skin, the sun rises in the morning, and some people have vaginas and I'm okay with it. Aren't I the advocate.

But, what this writer probably meant was "Gay Rights Advocates". An important but minute mistake, so let's not get hung up on that.

The more important point:



If you think that gay people do not deserve the same human rights as heterosexual people, you are wrong.




And if your children knew how intolerant and archaic your belief system is, it would make them cry.

I'm ashamed of my state. I thought that we had made bold strides in the civil rights department in my lifetime and my parents', but I guess we still have a lot of realizations to make.



I think that the best repercussions for a ban of gay marriage would be

to couple it with a ban of Christian practice, so that the bible-pounders oppressing the homosexual population would know what it's like to be given a civil right and then have it revoked.

And... I'm not an expert, but wasn't it "Love Thy Neighbor", not "Love Thy Neighbor Unless He's a Queer"?




Bigots get an F Minus.


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