Prop 8

You know something, I would rather live in a place like Utah, a place that makes no pretense of it's hatred for the Queer community than a place like California that takes away rights given to its citizens.

News flash, America. We are NOT a true Democracy. We are a Republic. We elect leaders to listen to us and make decisions. We do NOT rule by citizen majority. Can you imagine what would have happened if after the Civil Rights Act was passed, the states had held a VOTE and decided that no, all of these rights we've given to black people are going to go away? That is essentially what just happened in California. It was ruled by a Governing body that the Queer Community was to be granted equal status under the law and then the people of California TOOK THAT AWAY. What do we have government then for anyway? Are we to become a country that is ruled not by the rule of law but by the laws of fear.

What has been said about the Queer Community during this fight has cut us, all of us, to the core and made every single person in this country LESS than we are. Any time we speak less of people who are in fact citizens of this country, we become less as a people. Anytime we refuse citizens of this country rights that are granted to everyone else, we lose a piece of our souls.

So today, we as a nation lost some of ourselves. Today, we allowed majority fear to stomp out the rights of the minority in the most populous state in this country. Today, we are all a little smaller.