Wow, its been over year since I actually added a post here. So why now you ask? Well, it's because I am pissed and I need to vent. Even if not a soul reads this, so what.
So on Tuesday, as many of you know, we elected ourselves a fine new President. I couldn't be happier about that. But for many people in four of our wonderful states it was a pretty bitter sweet moment. For just a few hours after our new fantastic President Elect gave his awesome speech, noting how far as a people we have come, many families and couples received results on some other ballot measures in their given states that left them in tears and dismay. I think you know what measures I am referring to.
In one simple day, four states chose to set the march for equal rights and civil liberties back generations. In one simple day, millions of Americans found themselves staring in the face of a civil rights catastrophe. They had lost their rights to Marry. In one state, they even lost rights to adopt children. Florida and Arizona had overwhelmingly high numbers in favor of the Gay Marriage ban. I think, to most, this wasn't very surprising. But California? Surly they wouldn't pass something as strikingly and obviously absurd as this? Not California! But alas, they did. Due to a cleverly crafted and highly funded deceptive marketing campaign, 52% of the voting population sold their last ounces of decency and integrity on lies based solely on hate and bigotry perpetrated by the church. The same churches who profess to save families, do so at the expensive of cleaving others with such malice it defies reason of any kind.
Those of us who fall on the side of actually believing and embracing that "our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal" wonder what the big fuss is all about. I mean, they are people right? They certainly look like people. They go to school, have jobs, pay taxes, come from and have families, and have children. What sets them so apart from you and me? Because they some how have the capacity to love another person regardless of their sex? Somehow this is supposed to make them "less" in everyone's eyes? I honestly don't get it. Homosexuals design your clothes, create the art you look at, write and perform your favorite music, write produce and star in your favorite movies and TV shows. You know that pretty wedding dress you wore to the best day of your life? Very possibly designed by someone who is gay. But you would take away the right for them to have that same best day. They are part of all of us.
What kind of people are we that we would lay siege to our own flesh and blood this way? It oddly stinks of the 1909 America Eugenics Movement that was surprisingly based here in California and was backed and funded by you know who, the christian faithful. 99 years later, and it seems some of us have learned nothing. This isn't going to make gay people go away. This isn't going to stop homosexuality or even stifle it. In fact I honestly believe you, the church, has done more to damage your own cause by way of this behavior.
I came across this quote some place. I am honestly not certain where it prevails from, but it says a lot. I believe it speaks to those who would use god as a reason to do these kind of things to their fellow man.
"You cannot strip away the parts you do not like and only love what is left. You also cannot say that you just love them as part of God's creations, because if you subtract the parts you do not agree with, they are no longer who God created them to be. They become your creation. Taking away the parts you do not want to love is taking away from God, since He made us all who we are for a reason."
The fact of the matter is that god is not the problem. It's you who uses god as a rationale to single out those who you deem are unfit and impose your ideals of what is an acceptable person is and what is not, that is the problem.
Someone who will proudly declare aloud without shame or fear of retribution that they are gay, and proud to be who they, are braver, more courageous, and entitled to marry than all 52% of you combined.
