Jessica's Blog

Welcome to California!  In this state we respect the peace, harmony, and happiness of our chickens moreso than we do of a segment of our tax paying, law abiding, citizens.  For them, it has been voted that theyare not allowed to enter the sacred union of marriage.

My friends, this is discrimination, plain and simple.  There is no pussyfooting around it.  There is no other way to justify it.  When it is decided to actively alter a constitution in order to remove a civil right from one group of people that is allowed to all other citizens regardless of race, creed or color: that is discrimination, and haven't we  had enough?

C'mon Californians.  The conquistadors killed off the indians.  The Chinese were systematically killed while building the railroads.  The Japanese and Italians were sent off to internment camps, losing most of their belongings/buisnesses/savings forever during WW2.  Chinese were not allowed to attend public schools in San Francisco. Inter-racial marriage was against the law.  Mexican crop workers were systematically exposed to high levels of pesticides and were deathly ill and were told to cope.  Let's not re-enter this maddness of hatred and fear.  The state will soon divorce all gay couples that have married?  Can you imagine if all marriages between Blacks were nullified?  Between Asians?  Between Hispanics?  There needs to be a stop to this tendency of ours to need a people, a group of Americans, to opress. 

We know why this prop passed.  Lots and lots of money and footwork in neighborhoods on the part of Mormons from Utah (a group with excellent ethics on how to treat their own.. not!)  spreading **surprise*** fear tactics and misinformation.  People were told their children would be taught about gay sex and marriage in schools.  Lie.  People were told that their churches would lose their tax exempt status unless they taught gay marriage or allowed gay marriage.  Lie.   People were told they would not be allowed to protest what their children are taught in schools.  Lie.

No one is asking anyone to believe in gay marriage.  No one is asking anyone to have a spiritual liking of gay marriage.  Honest to goodness, you can be as homophobic as Limbaugh and still be against prop 8.  Well, maybe not.. he's all about taking liberties away from citizens....But this is where your personal beliefs and government policy need to be separate. What if your child/grandchild/brother/sister/cousin/auntie/uncle/niece/nefew/FRIEND fell in love and wanted to be committed to one person the rest of their life?  This is to be celebrated!  Now, say that person is of the same sex.  Would you be supportive with one hand and view them as a non-person on ther other (well, if you were Cheney you would)?  What would you do when they said they couldn't see their partner in the ER because they are not considered family?  What would you do if your loved one's partner died and the partner's family came in and sold the house out from under your loved one and look a shared retirement account because there is no lawful understanding of their relationship?

 When you chose to do good works in this life, does removing liberties from another count?

I am passionate about this because 1) haven't we had enough 2) no matter what I may feel about Gays, I refuse to vote for any kind of legislation that is out and out built from the ground up in order to alienate, ostracise, degrade, or demean any group of tax-paying, law-abiding citizens.

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