horace_hamster (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} horace_hamster) wrote,@ 2008-11-07 11:26:00 |
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This is you.
Last week, a young woman in Somalia was forced into a hole, buried up to her neck, and stoned to death by about 50 men, in front of a crowd of 1000 onlookers. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708
Her father says she was a 13 year old girl who'd been raped by three men. Others claim she was an adult woman who'd confessed to adultury. Either way -- her society's religion (Islam) didn't approve of the fact that she'd had sex (willingly or not) with a man (or men), and so they took away a basic right: her life.
Yesterday, millions of Californians whose religion(s) disapprove of an adult wanting to love, make a life with, and marry another adult when those two adults are of the same sex, took away their basic right to marry the person they love and nullified the legal marriages of thousands of Californians.
I could just say, "Well, you have to live with yourself, and with the decision you made when you voted for Prop 8, and with the consequences of that vote that you've forced on other people." But I'm not that gracious. I am, in fact, one of those "other people". So, to all you Californians who voted Yes on Prop 8: your choice was disgusting, cruel, and hateful, and I despise you for it.
Last week, a young woman in Somalia was forced into a hole, buried up to her neck, and stoned to death by about 50 men, in front of a crowd of 1000 onlookers. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708
Her father says she was a 13 year old girl who'd been raped by three men. Others claim she was an adult woman who'd confessed to adultury. Either way -- her society's religion (Islam) didn't approve of the fact that she'd had sex (willingly or not) with a man (or men), and so they took away a basic right: her life.
Yesterday, millions of Californians whose religion(s) disapprove of an adult wanting to love, make a life with, and marry another adult when those two adults are of the same sex, took away their basic right to marry the person they love and nullified the legal marriages of thousands of Californians.
I could just say, "Well, you have to live with yourself, and with the decision you made when you voted for Prop 8, and with the consequences of that vote that you've forced on other people." But I'm not that gracious. I am, in fact, one of those "other people". So, to all you Californians who voted Yes on Prop 8: your choice was disgusting, cruel, and hateful, and I despise you for it.
