As I sit here, I am torn between the contradictions of the November 4th Elections.It is hard for some one like me who is Jewish and who supports Gay Marriage, to look at the many hypocrisies in the November 4th Elections.
During the civil rights movement, most of the whites who stood up for Black equality were either Jewish or Gay. But here in California a majority of African Americans about 63% voted against Gay Equality. Here in California in a not so long past A mixed race couple Black and White could not have married, but the laws were changed which allowed blacks to marry whites. The same arguements of the "Yes on Prop 8" groups are the same arguements used against blacks. Ironically by African Americans voting to ban same sex marriage they joined and supported the same groups that said that they were not equal.
Even more disturbing is the Mormon , Church of Latter Day Saints, who were murdered by Christians for their untraditional Polygamist marriage practices and then now joined their former persecutors to persecute Gays and Lesbians.
The double irony is a co-worker of mine who is African American and a Mormon (irony tripled since official Mormon Church policy used to forbid African Americans/Blacks from joining the Mormon Church. To my face she led me to believe that she supported marriage equality, but then I saw here at a "Yes on 8" rally. So I guess she was just a liar, thanks Marcie.
I was born and raised in California. I have always been proud of being a Californian. I am now shamed by the hate and discrimination of a majority of Californians to write hate into our state Constitution.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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