Monday, November 10, 2008
No Promises, No Demands
On a lighter note than what's been thrown at you lately on this blog, I want everyone here to remember just how awesome music videos used to be. Frankly I don't even know if they really "make" videos anymore, but..... I'm afraid to finish that sentence as it will make me feel really old. :) Enjoy this classic. There are few songs that are as fun to sing along to.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I Can Hear It
Just down the street from me they are protesting. I have goosebumps. I can hear the helicopters overhead. Citizens are protesting in front of the LSD (Goddamn Mormon) Temple in Los Angeles. If you're free and not stuck in an office with an oppressive conservative boss like me (Hi Mark!) go down there and give 'em some hell. I did symbolically flip off a ward that I passed on my way to work, but I sure would like to be down there giving them some hell!
Dark Clouds. But a possible silver lining.
The Goddamn Mormons won this round, but they ain't gonna win the war. They succeeded in lying and scaring California voters into taking away the rights of other Californians, but their success won't last. It won't last because the system of American Government, the Constitution, and the People won't let it last. It won't last because the U.S. Constitution does not allow discrimination, even if the Goddamn Mormons want our California Constitution to codify it. It won't last because Californians up and down the coast protested and made their voices heard last night that we won't stand for inequality and hate in our state. It won't last because Californians are already legally challenging an amendment to our Constitution which fundamentally changes rights of Californians.
I'm confident that one day we will succeed. We will succeed because it is not the right of Americans to take away the rights of other Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that Americans are to be treated equally under the law. Equally.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
California just amended its Constitution to specifically deny equal protection to gays. And what did we learn in during the Civil Rights Movement, specifically relating to segregation? Separate is inherently not equal.
I understand that Californians are working to challenge Prop 8 legally based upon other grounds (most notably that such a change to the Constitution cannot be effectuated by proposition), and we may be able to clean up our own mess, as California. But if we can't, its a whole other reason to be excited about Obama, because the U.S. Supreme Court should be poised to rule on gay marriage the exact same way they ruled on interracial marriage. America didn't collapse when blacks and whites (and all other races) could marry, and it won't collapse when gays can marry.
Whether you agree with gay marriage or not is completely irrelevant. Your personal morals are irrelevant. Your religion is irrelevant. Your opinion is irrelevant, as is mine. All that matters is that this is America, a place where people, more than anywhere else in the world, are supposed to be free and equal. And our Constitution guarantees those rights. It guarantees that all Americans are to be treated equally. So the Goddamn Mormon hate doesn't really matter. Equality will be vindicated eventually. And those who fought against that equality will hopefully be remembered as the divisive hatemongers that they are. And those self-righteous people who hide behind religion to promote hate will get their payback when they find out that God don't discriminate and loves gays and straights just the same. But FYI to the Goddamn Mormons: God hates hypocrites. So stop your bullshit hypocracy about the "sanctity of marriage" while you are marrying three or four women (underage) at a time. You will get your due.
I'm confident that one day we will succeed. We will succeed because it is not the right of Americans to take away the rights of other Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that Americans are to be treated equally under the law. Equally.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
California just amended its Constitution to specifically deny equal protection to gays. And what did we learn in during the Civil Rights Movement, specifically relating to segregation? Separate is inherently not equal.
I understand that Californians are working to challenge Prop 8 legally based upon other grounds (most notably that such a change to the Constitution cannot be effectuated by proposition), and we may be able to clean up our own mess, as California. But if we can't, its a whole other reason to be excited about Obama, because the U.S. Supreme Court should be poised to rule on gay marriage the exact same way they ruled on interracial marriage. America didn't collapse when blacks and whites (and all other races) could marry, and it won't collapse when gays can marry.
Whether you agree with gay marriage or not is completely irrelevant. Your personal morals are irrelevant. Your religion is irrelevant. Your opinion is irrelevant, as is mine. All that matters is that this is America, a place where people, more than anywhere else in the world, are supposed to be free and equal. And our Constitution guarantees those rights. It guarantees that all Americans are to be treated equally. So the Goddamn Mormon hate doesn't really matter. Equality will be vindicated eventually. And those who fought against that equality will hopefully be remembered as the divisive hatemongers that they are. And those self-righteous people who hide behind religion to promote hate will get their payback when they find out that God don't discriminate and loves gays and straights just the same. But FYI to the Goddamn Mormons: God hates hypocrites. So stop your bullshit hypocracy about the "sanctity of marriage" while you are marrying three or four women (underage) at a time. You will get your due.
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