Posted by rayww on November 10, 2008, at 22:31:42
In reply to Couldn't say it any better, posted by Geegee on November 10, 2008, at 20:35:49
I don't think the vote for or against prop 8 was just about marriage, even though it was made to seem such. A friend of mine blogged the following:
"Did anyone ask the black community why so many who went and voted Obama voted yes on Prop 8? I did. I teach in an Urban school of 600. 49% are black- 43% Hispanic- whites and other groups are the minority. I asked the parents of some of my students who supported Prop8. Here is what they said. I was amazed. They said-The gay community comes in to our neighborhoods looking for young guys to take to the clubs and use them until they are older. They dump them back into our neighborhoods when they no longer care about these older boys. They treat them like used garbage. Too many women are raising children on their own or their momma's raising them. The gays do nothing to help the community. They don't go to their churches, their places of entertainment and they certainly don't live among the blacks. Black women are particulary angry at gays as man/daddy robbers. Black students are very cruel to gays and it requires a lot of work to protect the gay students at my school from the blacks who persecute them. These are some of the reasons for the vote."After reading this I realized the marriage issue was a small percentage of the vote. These voters were voting against the actions against their family and community. I think we would all agree the actions described here are disgusting and unacceptable, for both gay and straight.
So, what was the vote for? What percentage of gay people are looking for a permanent relationship? Look at what a hay day lawyers have when two try to divorce. Have gay people ever valued the right to divorce?
Had prop 8 failed to pass, would you find church goers protesting outside of gay people's sacred places? Don't think so. This is what we mean by one sided tolerance...it's only tolerance if I accept and condone their lifestyle, but its bigotry if I stand up for the sacredness of marriage that I believe in.
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