Yes, Another Political Post, I'm /Sorry/

[masterofmidgets]

While I was at the Obama rally in White Plaza today, there was a group out with a table and signs for Yes On Prop 8. On the one hand, points for sheer balls - it's not a popular opinion to hold on campus, and they got nailed pretty hard by all of our speakers, so it was brave of them to be there anyway. But I just - I don't get it. This isn't Bumfuck, Nowhere. The kids standing there couldn't go back to their pretty white fence two-car garage 2.5 kids and a dog suburban neighborhoods and pretend gay people don't exist except on the television and in the gay bars. (Yes, I know there are many suburban gay families.) This is a large, diverse, fairly liberal university.

How do you go back to your dorm, back to your lesbian roommate, and the gay guy down the hall, and the out kids you eat dinner with, and tell them you spent your day fighting to take their civil liberties away and make sure they can't have a legally recognized relationship with the person they love? How can you ever feel good about that?

I can't say this enough: vote NO on Prop 8.  Do it because you want the gays and lesbians who want to fall in love, get married, and raise a family to have that choice. Do it because the law cannot make exceptions in extending basic rights without violating the most sacred traditions of our country. Do it because who you love is none of the government's business. Do it because you believe that love is what matters, not gender.

Comments

[themollyedge.livejournal.com]

Word. Generally, I am very respectful of other people's opinions. But to vote yes on prop 8 is to vote for discrimination and to enshrine hatred in the constitution, and there is nothing in the world that will make me have any respect for those kind of beliefs.

That there are any Yes on 8 people here on campus is enormously sad to me. But to see so many people at the rally today was so gratifying.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

When I went to do my laundry I saw some Yes posters that tried to say voting Yes on 8 wasn't homophobic, and that seriously made me angry - if you are going to push a proposition to legislate your personal hate, at least own up to it!

But I guess I just have to take heart that there are people like that very articulate guy at the rally who argued that voting Yes went against conservative principles. And turn up the volume extra loud on When A Man Is In Love With A Man.

I wish I was registered in CA though D:

[themollyedge.livejournal.com]

Those fliers were plastered all over my dorm's bathrooms. I almost cried when I saw them. But it was amazing to see so much of my dorm rally around our fury over them, and over the misinformation that they represented.

The conservative guy was amazing! And Of Montreal is ALSO amazing! These are the things I've got to have faith in, I guess.