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klsiegel320) wrote2008-10-29 10:45 pm
klsiegel320) wrote2008-10-29 10:45 pm
VOTE NO! on Prop 8 - and any other hate legislation
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
Seriously - go do it. Get your friends to do it. The bigots can all go to the nasty warm place, for all I care. They'll have plenty of good company.
Hate is hate. The people who think their marriages are endangered by someone else's love, that happens to be different from theirs, have no clue what love is and wouldn't know it if it bit them squarely on a very tender place.
The only thing worse is the idea that legislating hate is somehow American. It isn't. It follows in the footsteps of wonderful examples in history - like those we fought against in WWII, for example, who were happy to legislate hatefulness and murder into law. Do we really want to start down that slippery slope?
We do not. We are Americans. Our ancestors came here to escape repression, to be allowed to worship God as they wanted, not as a King or other ruler dictated. We do not legislate away other people's right to believe and worship and love and live as they see fit, simply because they are different from us. And anybody who says different is no true American, and no true patriot.
Seriously - go do it. Get your friends to do it. The bigots can all go to the nasty warm place, for all I care. They'll have plenty of good company.
Hate is hate. The people who think their marriages are endangered by someone else's love, that happens to be different from theirs, have no clue what love is and wouldn't know it if it bit them squarely on a very tender place.
The only thing worse is the idea that legislating hate is somehow American. It isn't. It follows in the footsteps of wonderful examples in history - like those we fought against in WWII, for example, who were happy to legislate hatefulness and murder into law. Do we really want to start down that slippery slope?
We do not. We are Americans. Our ancestors came here to escape repression, to be allowed to worship God as they wanted, not as a King or other ruler dictated. We do not legislate away other people's right to believe and worship and love and live as they see fit, simply because they are different from us. And anybody who says different is no true American, and no true patriot.
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I'm sorry...
They do think, dear - they just think in a twisted manner. They believe that homosexuality is a sin condemned by the Bible. They further usually have various magical beliefs about the Bible itself that, when closely examined, tend to amount almost to idolatry. (They also believe that heterosexual marriage and a cuddly nuclear family of Mom, Dad, and 2.4 kids is promoted by the Bible. This goes to show how little of the Bible they have actually read.)
They believe, therefore, that homosexuals should not be "rewarded" for their sinful behavior by getting the same rights and privileges as the "righteous."
They claim to be driven by the purest of motives, preserving some kind of holiness or righteousness or goodness. What they are actually driven by is fear, jealousy, and resentment. They are afraid that if they don't raise their voices loudly against this sin in their midst, God will smite them right along with the sinful (they really do believe that, and that - sadly - is an inheritance we get from the Puritans).
They are also resentful and jealous, because here they are being righteous, and following the rules, and they see people who aren't following their rules getting something good, and it makes them angry.
Why it should make them angry to see two people fall in love and commit themselves to live together in a holy bond, rather than joyful, I don't really know. Neither can I really understand how seeing a couple who both happen to be men or who both happen to be women commit themselves to that holy bond somehow makes any difference to their own commitments. I suspect it has to do with the fearfulness and unhappiness in their own lives.
Usually, people who are in committed relationship are strengthened in that commitment whenever they see other couples make that same commitment; it reminds them of the joy they have in each other, and makes them happy that there is more of that joy in the world. It makes me sad that there are people so fearful, so full of spite, that someone else's joy makes them unhappy. Perhaps that's what they need to praying about?