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:

[happymediocrity.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could be more against prop 8, myself. I've never felt on the fence about this issue, either. I don't get how they can try to repeal a right that already exists and say it's okay.

Yes on love; no on 8.

[masterofmidgets.livejournal.com]

One of the speakers at the rally I went to today was the mayor of San francisco, and one of the really awesome, hard-hitting points he made was that if this passes, it would be the first time the constitution of CA was amended to take rights /away/ from a group of people.

Even if you are opposed to homosexuality (which I know is no one here), CONSTITUTIONS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. I'm relieved everyone I know is against it/voting no. Hopefully it will be enough.

[happymediocrity.livejournal.com]

I hope it will be enough, too, but I'm scared it won't be.


Is it bad that I'm secretly sort of glad my Mormon friend was too late to register for absentee ballot and can't send in her Yes on 8 vote? And also on Postsecret, this person said they steamed open mail-in ballots and took out all the yes on 8 ones...and even though I know that's wrong, I can't help but feel that person is awesome.

I probably should feel bad about that, but I just can't.

[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.