NO on Hate

I will make this one quick and simple. If you are in California and plan on voting Yes for Proposition 8, then don’t. You know better.

You know that same-sex marriage is not an issue. It has no bearing on you, your marriage, or your children. It will not affect the way the sun rises or sets, the cost of bread, or the safety of your pension. You can not be driven off the road late at night by a same sex marriage. You will never have to marry somebody of the same sex yourself. Ever. I promise.

For those of you who wrap yourselves up in the cloak of “It will Save Marriage,” then you are an idiot. I’m sorry, but you know that if the sacrament of marriage can survive Liz Taylor et. al., Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, Pam and Tommy, and Britney and Jason or Kevin; then it can handle whatever you might think is “bad.”

If you want to vote Yes on 8 then go ahead and move to Alaska and join Todd Palin and the anti-American separatists. Because our Constitution grants rights, freedom, and liberty – NONE of which that can be threatened by two people who love eachother enough to put themselves in the way of hate-mongering dipsticks like you. The Constitution was not designed to discriminate. You are not better than the Constitution.

You get that this is less about some gay couple’s need for insurance and more about YOUR rights don’t you? You get that if a constitutional amendment to outlaw somebody’s inalienable rights is passed that YOU are now threatened. What can we pass next? Nobody with two kids can have a third. No two people of the same sex can start a business. No two people of different religions can marry. Nobody who is unemployed can vote. It does not take a lot to think that somebody out there just may be as afraid of you as you them.

Finally, if I see one more child forced to shill for the homophobes, then I will blame you for every hate crime for the next thirty years. This ridiculous proposition has done nothing but force free, loving young minds to be influenced by shallow, terrified grownups looking to resolve some sort of Freudian complex. Right wing religious extremists are fond of saying that marriage is meant for procreation – and that is their simple reason for promoting hate. But what about all of those kids out there being raised, lovingly, in adopted or foster homes led by same sex partners? Are you anti-gay marriage and pro-orphan? Idiots.

I have been so saddened by the level of reasoning put forth by these folks: “Stop Prop 8 or the schools will teach kids about gay marriage!” No they won’t, but they should. Because people of all stripes will want happiness and love. For somebody in your kid’s classroom right now, that little bit of hope may just keep them from hurting themselves, or using drugs, or doing something else that may actually threaten your rights. And schools should never be in the business of teaching the crude discrimination put forth by rotten parents.

Now, back to my list:
#90 In 2006 Bush set his sites on destroying marriage. By advocating for a Constitutional Amendment declaring marriage should be “defined” he proved he had no understanding of freedom, or the Constitution he swore to defend. Not one Amendment in that sacred document takes away rights, or defines a personal choice. Amendments give rights. The right to vote. The right to not be a slave. The right to cling to guns and religion. Bush’s folly was designed to get conservatives to go out and vote figuring they would go ahead and vote for guys like Rick Santorum…which they did not in 2006.

#89. Rick Santorum: This is the former Pennsylvania Senator who once tried to use Bush’s Scare ‘Em If You Got ‘Em technique around gay marriage by telling humans with brains that homosexuality is the same as bestiality. That was just one of his big hits. He blamed the people of Boston voting for liberals as the reason priests there were raping boys. He suggested there should have been penalties for those who could not leave Katrina’s destructive path in New Orleans. Penalties. He was the star of my Master’s thesis as being one of the most in-the-alcohol-industry-pocket Senator in Washington. Oh, and he claimed that WMD had been found in Iraq. Even Bush knew he was wrong.

But this guy was a Bush water Carrying All Star. Tried to get intelligent design taught in schools as part of NCLB. Claimed to be a compassionate conservative while not having any compassion for victims of rape needing an abortion, or families of immigrants needing an interpreter to tell them to go back to their own country.

#88. Christie Todd Whitman: Now, here’s somebody who has fooled most of progressive America because she quit her gig as head of the EPA because Bush and Cheney treated her like crud and comes off as too smart to be in that Administration. But here is a former Governor who knows that it will be hard to become President with that pesky illegal search of a 16-year-old African American kid for a photo-op always lingering in the background. Maybe now that he’s dead…


But that’s not all. Remember September 11? Of course you do. And of course you remember that huge cloud of building that seemed to fog over Manhattan for weeks. Well, Whitman – following marching orders from W – went into NYC and made sure people thought the air quality was fine and quashed any bad news that may have been discovered by scientists. Science! Bush’s kryptonite. Bush even had her create a report on the effects of global warming only to later dismiss it as baseless.