Ms. Epley
11-05-2008, 02:54 PM
I am absolutely sickened that on the day where we move ourselves farther away from our shamefully racist past, and show how far we've come by electing our first African American president, we also take one giant step back by passing a law based on hate and blind discrimination.
Marriage is about love, plain and simple. If you think that allowing gays and lesbians to marry ruins marriage, then explain to me the ghastly divorce rate among heterosexual couples. Explain to me Brittney Spears' fifty-five hour, gee this should be fun, marriage. Explain to me how telling people that their love isn't real, is helping marriage and humanity. Tell me how dehumanizing people and not allowing them equal rights is the American thing to do. Tell me how your God would approve of all this hate.
Give me a reason to support Prop 8 that didn't come from the Bible. Call me old fashioned, but I'm pretty sure that basing a law off of the Bible is mixing church and state, and I do not support that. And if you are so committed to "Christianity," then tell me, what happened to love? Isn't that what Jesus taught? Love thy neighbor? Love thy enemy? Love love love love love? Didn't Jesus hang out with the lepers and the prostitutes and the outcasts? I'm no expert on the Bible by any means, but I feel confident that a religion teaching hate and discrimination against those that are different than us, is not Christianity. I am not bashing the religious institution, but I am bashing those who are using false Christian morals to spread hate.
I'm heartbroken for those of us who breathe, and bleed, and feel, and love, just the same as the rest of us, who have just gotten a giant slap in the face. California (as well as the other states that passed discriminatory laws in this election) got the message across: "gays and lesbians don't count. They aren't full human beings." How can we call America the land of the free while simultaneously holding people down, and refusing them their rights as human beings? We've said it before, but somehow it hasn't gotten through: separate but equal, is not.
This is truly a bittersweet election, but the fight for gay marriage isn't over. I will not quit, and I know I do not stand alone.
Marriage is about love, plain and simple. If you think that allowing gays and lesbians to marry ruins marriage, then explain to me the ghastly divorce rate among heterosexual couples. Explain to me Brittney Spears' fifty-five hour, gee this should be fun, marriage. Explain to me how telling people that their love isn't real, is helping marriage and humanity. Tell me how dehumanizing people and not allowing them equal rights is the American thing to do. Tell me how your God would approve of all this hate.
Give me a reason to support Prop 8 that didn't come from the Bible. Call me old fashioned, but I'm pretty sure that basing a law off of the Bible is mixing church and state, and I do not support that. And if you are so committed to "Christianity," then tell me, what happened to love? Isn't that what Jesus taught? Love thy neighbor? Love thy enemy? Love love love love love? Didn't Jesus hang out with the lepers and the prostitutes and the outcasts? I'm no expert on the Bible by any means, but I feel confident that a religion teaching hate and discrimination against those that are different than us, is not Christianity. I am not bashing the religious institution, but I am bashing those who are using false Christian morals to spread hate.
I'm heartbroken for those of us who breathe, and bleed, and feel, and love, just the same as the rest of us, who have just gotten a giant slap in the face. California (as well as the other states that passed discriminatory laws in this election) got the message across: "gays and lesbians don't count. They aren't full human beings." How can we call America the land of the free while simultaneously holding people down, and refusing them their rights as human beings? We've said it before, but somehow it hasn't gotten through: separate but equal, is not.
This is truly a bittersweet election, but the fight for gay marriage isn't over. I will not quit, and I know I do not stand alone.