California Loses Five Billion Internets

Here's our first political rant of the blog! Huzzah!

This week, Prop 8 was upheld in California, and forgive me for being so melodramatic, but I got so pissed off. I just don’t understand what gives California the right to let the public decide who gets civil rights or not?! The public didn’t have to vote on integration in the 60s, nor did the public vote on whether women got the voting rights in the 20s. If that had been the case, then south of Virginia African-Americans would still be sharecropping and subject to Jim Crow Laws, and in some states women would not even be voting! Come ON, California, get with it!

Honestly, this whole bitch goes back to the alleged separation of church and state. This country was NOT founded on Christianity or Judeo-Christian ideas. George Washington was a Mason. Jefferson and Adams were Deists (which meant they believed in a god, but not the God/Jesus of Christianity). I’m fed up with Evangelicals and Pentecostals insisting that was the way it was. And regardless: what happened to equality for all? Why should the public of California decide whether a same-sex couple has a right to the same happiness that straight couples get? Because Prop 8 only got passed because many Mormons and Pentecostals live out there. And remember: it barely got passed with around 53% of the vote. That’s not a wide margin by any means.

And may I humbly ask those who oppose it: what exactly is WRONG with letting gays marry? And in your arguments, don’t you DARE use anything pertaining to God or the Bible, because neither of those have ANY place in legislature. Truly: how will it ‘take away rights’ (as that Gathering Storm add mentioned)? If anything, those people are being hypocrites by actually taking away the rights of others who are the same citizens as anyone else. People like those from NOM and other anti-gay marriage organizations are bigots using fear to cover up the truth: there is nothing wrong with it, and you all are letting your morals get where they don’t belong to begin with. Leave your feelings in the pews, and let’s grow up as a country. Because Europe certainly knows what they’re talking about…Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Holland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Canada, and Mexico to name a few countries that recognize gay ,marriage as legal and equal.

Amendments to state constitutions like Prop 8 are not legit by any means, and I cannot believe the court actually upheld a ban on the rights of other people. It should not be about morals and values when it comes to law making. And it should not be about constitutions and law making when it comes to two people who love each other regardless of what sex/gender they identify with. For those fanatic Christians who oppose gay marriage: did not Jesus himself say ‘Love Thy Neighbor?’ Do you REALLY think he would approve of your discrimination and bigotry?

True, it may say in the Bible that it’s wrong, but then again, in the SAME book, it mentions that women shalt not cut their hair, and people shalt not eat pork and fish! It says people can’t get tattoos and if a woman is raped, SHE gets killed by stoning and other laws of the like. If we’re going to ban gay marriage, why not go for the whole thing? No more bacon, no more cute pixie-cuts, and I know at least ten women who would automatically be put on death row.

So please, California, grow up. And those of you who oppose same sex marriage but cannot produce a single legal argument (which again, I define as an argument that does not bring morals, religion, God, or family into the equation and uses strictly legal terminology), shut your mouths and let them marry! Because I can sum up my entire argument in one fully-legitimate sentence: In the end, they are still citizens and deserve full legal rights just as any American citizen.

Suck it, NOM. You little fuckers can't even BEGIN to counter-attack that!