Today courts in California ruled to strike down Proposition 8. This is one step towards victory for Gays and Lesbians, but let's not celebrate just yet because Prop 8 supporters will carry forward with their fight. What the people supporting this discriminatory law need to understand is, we will not be stopped until we have equal rights. I don't understand such hatred towards a community, yet our countries history is steeped in hatred. Remember the black children who walked through throngs of white, spitting, cursing people, just to attend school, which had been previously all white? Remember the peaceful marchers who were targeted with fire hoses and police dogs? Shame on our history so steeped in the blood of slaves, and we should have learned from it, yet here we go again, only now these people are targeting us.
People spout religious scriptures and fall back on religious ingraining to justify supporting discrimination against us, without understanding or knowing who we really are. One of my own personal victories is, I don't have to justify or try and change these people's opinion of me. I am who I am with no apology offered. Our founding father's implemented laws so that minority communities could be protected, with rights, regardless of the feelings of the majority. This God given right, of two people who love each other to marry falls under what our fore fathers intended.
We are never going to stop the hate until people start teaching their children inclusion, and to view the world with open hearts and open minds. I think each generation is more accepting, but don't ever doubt there is still hatred being taught, and discrimination is being supported in self righteous minds and churches.
I was driving home from Brownwood the other day and I was listening to 102.3 and some idiot on the radio was definately in the fight against gay marriage. He had horrible arguments, and one was that it has worked for 5,000 years the way it has and when you change something that works that things go bad. He was also using religious quotations and supporters to come on air and site scriptures ect... He also went on to compare gay marriage to that of a man marrying many wives, which made no sense at all. I have yet to hear a good argument on why gay marriage should stay illegal. They want to talk aboout how this is American and freedom of religion but when it comes down to it the people opposing this only have one argument we do not think like them therefore we are wrong! It is absolutely ridiculous.
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