While I am extremely pleased with Obama’s win and America’s step forward in electing an African-American president, I am extremely displeased with the Prop 8 results. The only thing keeping my spirits up is that just 8 years ago, 61% of people voted against GLBT equality. This year, only 51% voted against it.
At my high school’s mock election, prop 8 did not pass, as 55% of students voted no on it. Obama also won in that election. I can only hope that in another ten years, when the increasingly accepting and ‘live and let live’ generation of mine is voting actively, equality will come. Until then, I plan to rally for equality, whether or not our government overturns prop 8 as unconstitutional or not.
Either way, Monday night I was venting to myself by writing and a friend told me to post what I had written.
It is controversial (especially to those devout to biblical teachings), but contains a lot of my reasoning on this, what I have taken time to learn, and I am interested to hear what those who were Yes on Prop 8-ers have to say. Brace yourself,
“Hello extreme Yes on 8 activist, Prop 22 supporter, I am writing to question your reasoning. I have taken time to consider it, but don’t find it logical.
Until 1978, many of your supporters denied membership to their church to black people because their LDS church believed that God was punishing them by giving them black skin.
You sit complacent in the fact that your country denied interracial couples marriage or sexual relations until 1967. Now, you might see that interracial couples are humans just like you, with love just like you, when your old testament denies this. You want to ignore this fact.
How is it that you are pulling so much of your argument from the old testament when you scoff at the rest of its ideals? It was created for Israelites, who could not handle higher law. Can you handle higher law? It’s becoming evident that you still want the old testament to be alive and well in today’s day. If this is your true feeling, then I suppose it would be a suggestion of yours to lock women up in segregated tents during their period, because it is God’s way of punishing women eternally for Eve’s taking of the apple from the tree.
To quote the novel Ishmael, religion tells us Eve got Adam and herself kicked out of the Garden of Eden for taking the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Does religion ever tell us why? No. You say that homosexuality is wrong.
To quote the man screaming outside the window of his car, “Jesus wants fags to go to hell. You too!” Can you give me a logical reason as to why it is wrong? No. Just as you can give me no reason as to why the tree was forbidden.
You say homosexual couples cannot have children and therefore should not be allowed. Too late, gay couples are already present in today’s society. They are bearing children, adopting children, and being successful parents.
And does the world need more humans? No. We are draining the world’s resources by overproducing. Also, being gay is not a choice. I never chose to have my first crush on a boy in the first grade...it just was. I’d like to ask you if you ever chose who you were physically attracted to. If it was a choice, people wouldn’t all choose to be homosexual, as there is so much prejudice against them.
Chemically, one cannot fake arousal. If you chose to become a homosexual, you would have to completely alter your body chemistry to be attracted to the same gender. You simply cannot do this.
As far as teaching gay marriage in schools, there is technically a California state standard to teach respect for marriage. This is purely educational, not persuasive. The thing is, your child will not be persuaded to be homosexual, only informed of the right to their marriage.
If you have issues with your child learning about different types of people (vegetarians as well as differing religions) it’s much too late to try and stop that now. Your child learns about the Catholic religion in world history, (hint hint Spanish inquisition). You will still have a say in your child’s views, to the same extent that you did before gay marriage was legalized. You can still take them to church and inform them of what you believe is right and advise them in their decisions. This will not change.
“Are you not taking away a right to a group of people due to one of their characteristics? Is that not discrimination?” C. Patton
Your slogan is “Protect Marriage!” You are not protecting it, but taking it away for nearly 10% of the population.
Never, as an American, have I imagined my rights would be taken away. Never, as an American have my parents imagined their rights would be taken away. It is the equality and support from our own society, and the understanding. We want to see that our society accepts us because, as you so frequently forget, we are all viewed as equal under the same eyes of God.
Love thy neighbor.
Do not violate the golden rule.
The sky has not fallen since gay marriage has been legalized. Your children have not caught the gay fever. If you still think that they will, you should be running now!
Anita Bryant wanted to crusade against homosexuality in the 70′s. She wanted to abolish it completely. She learned that it is not ever going to be ‘abolished.’ The demand for equality will continue for all time. America, long ago, became the eternal advocate of equality and higher thinking. We will not stop now.”
