Prop 8 (A month later)

The enormous (and obvious, at least to me) backlash against Proposition 8 is one of those moments that while it may give you hope at its strong reaction, should not have happened in the first place.

There has been everything from a short film musical Prop 8 the Musical and a call in "Gay" day, to a back and forth between a New York Times add proclaiming that mobs of gay people were attacking Mormons, and an add countering that from a NY gay advocate group Truth Wins Out that ran a counter add in the Salt Lake City Times showing the hypocrisy of the people who were responsible for the New York Times add. One of my favorites and probably most powerful arguments for the repeal of prop 8 was MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's strong reaction.

I know a few gay people. None that are really in my life on a constant basis (parents of an ex girlfriend). I don't know how ANYONE at all, religious or not, could deny basic rights from an individual based on a seemingly unimportant thing like sexual orientation. Who people are attracted to should not have anything to do with tax benefits, estate planning benefits, government benefits, employment benefits, medical benefits, death benefits, family benefits, housing benefits, consumer benefits, and a myriad of other random benefits.

My hope is that hopefully this backlash will create a fire storm that would bring another round of civil rights to yet another group of people that in a "land of the free"don't seem to be a part of.