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[surranndie]

Okay, so here's this. I really hope this is all I am going to say about this, since I prefer to keep this journal about fandom stuff and general happy-making things. It's not a diary - it's an indulgence.

Re: Prop 8.
To: Flist

Um. Yeah. I've seen several people screaming about how much California sucks and how much they hate "us" for passing this atrocity.

YOU ARE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR AND ALL THAT ACCOMPLISHES IS MAKING ME FEEL EVEN WORSE.

If you're on Livejournal and I am on your flist, that means you are gay-friendly. So screaming at your flist, who I have to assume is ALSO mostly gay-friendly, about how much they suck for something they were most likely not responsible for, seems childish and catty.

So - yeah. Thanks for making my "No" vote feel even more pointless. It's bad enough we live in a state that passes something like that and in Red Orange County, but let me at least be able to look at my flist as something to amuse me and not something to fear.

Comments

[cenobitetx.livejournal.com]

My darling, take heart.

First, never think your vote is without value. Ever. Without it, we are chattel in society, not citizens. The women a hundred years ago who studied law and passed the bar when they would never be allowed to stand in a courtroom, sit on a jury, or be a judge - did that to prove to us that limits on them were the limits on all of us. That was damaging to them, to their minds, to their spirit was a poison in the 'accepted view' of how the world should be. Inez Mulholland, who died in California speaking out for votes for women. Her words were, "Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?" When you voted against Prop 8, you made your voice known, took a stand against a moral and legal wrong. You stood before the tank, and no amount of crowing by anyone else will change that. I'm in Texas with a 'Stop The Wolf Killer' sign that I had printed up standing right in my front lawn. I wore the matching tshirt pretty much everywhere. This did not make me popular with my not just my neighbors, but my own parents. You did the right thing, the just thing. Which reminds me again what an incredible person you are, and how lucky I am to know you.

What does this have to do with anything? A lot. Because it reminds us that a majority accepted injustice is still an injustice and what history tells us again and again, is that when American Citizens are denied what is only justly theirs as Citizens, there is only so long that will be allowed to last.

You were hit with a majority of people who refuse to see the world past their own nose and their own view of America and how it works. THEY ARE WRONG. The company that you are in is bitter, but by heaven it is sweet, too. It is the likes of Inez Mulholland, The Attorneys who argued Virginia vs. Loving, who marched in the South, who tore up their pay vouchers rather than share in unequal pay, who demanded fire escapes for immigrant workers in the sweat shops, who refused to support child labor, who lobbied the state department and treasury to visas for the Jews being murdered in Europe, all of whom saw that a country by the people and for the people is ALL the people - and making that exist means sacrifice, heartache and sitting next the jerk on the bus who crows and listening to the well meaning person wanting to paint all of the state with the same brush in of angry righteousness.

We fight an uphill battle, those of us who can see farther than our own nose and our own comfort. We suffer a lot because we can see that the Chimps are driving the bus. It's exasperating, exhausting and painful at times. But never let them forget that you are there. They've won the battle. We'll win the war.

Otherwise America is not the country that it has show me again and again that it is.

[surranndie.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* You're so awesome. Seriously. *LOVE*