Chickens before Humans
Schizophrenic: Californians voted to allow chickens to have enough room to move around,
but they won’t let private citizens make marital commitments unless you are boy-girl.
I voted No on 8. A few years ago, one of my favorite bloggers, www.WilliamSledd.com, put out a youtube video asking people to speak out about gay rights. My daughter and I turned on the iSight Camera and make a quick video, here:
It was touching to get comments from young people around the world, thanking us for our kindness. I’m raising my kids to believe that everyone is here for a reason, everyone has gifts to bear and your one challenge in your lifetime is to live as fully, as completely as you can, as YOU.
So, its a big day when as many voters voted to allow civil rights as voted to refuse civil rights. The pendulum has swung FAR since the days when Ronald Reagan would not treat men dying of AIDS with dignity by acknowledging them (and look at his karma, he ended up with Alzheimers, unable to acknowledge his own wife). I’m going to keep up the fight, will you? Some day, very soon, we’ll overturn Prop 8.
In the meantime, look who funded it? Elsa Broekhuizen, the mother of Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., the reclusive theocratic millionaire who inherited $300 million from his philanthropist father at age 18. She’s the mother of the guy whose mercenaries have more power in the Iraq war than our own military and our troops. He’s a rich white Southern California Christian Republican. Surprise. In a 1985 interview, he said “My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives.” One woman and one man’s millions of dollars spent against millions and millions of voters.
Obama-Biden’s victory showed that there is power in the grass roots, and one day soon the grassroots will defeat Broekhuizen and Ahmanson, sending them back into their mansions.
Don’t lose hope.
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