Hello Everyone,
DishThis! has been on hiatus for a while but is proud to be back and standing strong. Let's get right to it shall we...
Election 2008 has come and gone and after what seemed like an eternity of disappointments for this country, we can all finally rejoice that "CHANGE" has come to America. That change is Barack Obama! As he stated, "the road ahead will be a long one", but I must say never in my life have I ever felt so proud to be an American. The sense of unity I felt after Obama won the presidency, and seeing the aftermath of people's excitement truly made me cry. It felt as if we all became one, something I never thought I personally could ever feel let alone witness firsthand.
However, while my excitement over the election would last for quite a few days my tears of joy I shed the previous evening would turn to sadness after hearing about the passing of Proposition 8 in California. America took a major step and certainly made history with the election of Barack Obama, and in the same moment we took a giant step back. The banning of gay marriage has officially stamped homosexuals as being second class citizens. California was not the only state banning gay marriage however, Arizona, Arkansas, and Florida also passed their own bans on gay marriage. Arkansas took it a step farther by also making it illegal for unmarried gay couples to adopt or foster children. Talk about being a second class citizen and trapping homosexuals into a corner. Do you really think we would take this lying down or that we would not be heard?
As we speak there are rallies and protests being orchestrated for the months ahead to overturn these unlawful stripping of our civil liberties. We will regain these rights and we are just as American as any close-minded heterosexual. The fact that the majority of the donations given to support Prop 8 were from the Roman Catholic Church and Mormons totaled about 38.5 million dollars makes me sick. All that money donated to take away the rights of American citizens when we could use those funds to help with AIDS or breast cancer research or fighting world hunger, etc. The list just goes on, and it is really quite sad and comical that these people claim all they want and are attempting to do is protect the sanctity of marriage. I really do laugh, because they are seriously misguided here! The sanctity of marriage, wow they really need to look at themselves with that one don't you think?
My feeling... we definitely don't care about who you love or how you love them and what you do, so why don't you live your own lives and leave us in peace to do the same! Why do you feel it is necessary to judge me and the way I live my life? You talk about protecting marriage and American families from becoming corrupt or skewed somehow and that legalizing gay marriage would do such a thing as send a type of "wrong" message, well how about this... You want to protect the sanctity of marriage by not permitting homosexuals to marry, well in that case why don't we go ahead and pass a law making it illegal for heterosexuals to get divorced. Why should heteros be permitted to marry and divorce as many times as they'd like and have children with as many people as they'd like? Don't you think that is taking advantage of the right to marry and frankly ruining the true meaning of marriage!
The Roman Catholic Church for years now has been in the middle of a huge scandal regarding the molestation of young boys by members of their community. A scandal that continues to shell out settlements to its victims in the millions, however to date these settlements have reached well into the tens of billions of dollars total. So just so I am seeing all of this correctly, you are not only donating money and fighting to prevent homosexuals from having equal rights, but you are also shelling out "hush" money to the victims of your appointed priests just to keep it as under the radar as possible that they themselves have not only participated in homosexual acts but that they took advantage of young boys and sexually abused them. How interesting that you who oppose gay rights are claiming we are destroying America and the so called dream of what it means to be an American, we are not the ones using positions of power to molest children and then offer financial settlements as an avenue of getting away with it. We are just as American as heterosexuals and regarding you close-minded people out there... I will say it right now, we are more American than you, because we believe in equal rights for all races, religions, and sexual orientations. We love freely, and if you knew how to do that it is then you would truly know what it is to be not only a citizen of the United States of America but a citizen of the human race!
Thank you to all of my readers, and to those who have been supporting gay rights... keep fighting and remember together we will be triumphant and will most definitely overcome! Victory will be ours, and we will crush intolerance in America.
Be who you are and love freely, and always...
- DishThis!
