Proposition Eight

I find it ironic piety has become the foundation for the yes on prop. 8 movement. The precepts and principles religion subscribes to are based on compassion, peace, and love; yet, these principles are frequently and consistantly replaced with self righteious propaganda. Unfortunately, apathy and indifference is transformed into fear and illogical behavior. Indeed, one can look at the genius of the rhetoric behind these campaigns and find the pathos appeal in the epicenter. Fear causes irrational thinking and impulsive action. Despite the logical and just appeals selfish and survival instincts take over all rational.
One does not have to support homosexuality to support no on prop. eight. Although our constitution states we are all equal, we can agree this is not an axiom. The desparity found within the past century manifests the opposite. The United States has made leaps and bounds; most recently, with the election of President-elect Barack Obama, but their is work still to be done. If Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez were still alive today, they would not be short of causes. Proposition is not so much about marriage, as it is about equality. Closing the gap between the american dream, and the american reality is possible. Naysayers, may look to the past and consider it a feat to large for one generation to overcome as the farmworkers did against the farmowners, but collective action is the weapon of the masses. Its not that we are not screaming because we all certainly suffer from a myriad of injustice, but its that it is falling on deaf ears. We are not a quiet submissive group, but we need to band together and make one cause, one voice in solidarity; one issue at a time. Today, it is proposition eight; tomorrow, we work on closing the gap between the american dream and american reality.
I will close with a couple quotes:

"An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Ghandi

"Anyone who trades security for justice deserves neither." Benjamin Franklin