I’m sure you’ve read on various blogs, various news sources and seen on various shows all about the renewed hope of our Nation.
I too am feeling the love for Obama. I’m happy with the way this election turned out for the most part. I think that Proposal 8 is a catastrophe for a few reasons, which we’ll get to shortly, but all in all what I want to say is that I’m proud of Obama, and I’m proud of our country for coming together and agreeing that he is for the greater good.
He has a long, long road ahead. Those of us who are following him will need to keep in mind later – that he didn’t do this to the country. He’s just here to clean it up. It will be a long, and frustrating road, as he outlined in his acceptance speech, but I believe with all of my heart that he is going to do what is right by us. What I fear is the far right, and all of their negative energy. Who would’ve thought that people who believe so much in the church, would or could be so hateful? McCain’s campaign was a nasty one. Probably worse than I’ve seen in my lifetime. Certainly all that hate will not disappear overnight, or even over the time it takes to inaugurate the man. My wish is that he will stay safe, and will lead us on to the better tomorrow that I think we are all hoping and praying is there.
As far as Proposal 8 goes. What a crock of extra fat goat milk that’s gone a little rancid. What is WRONG with people? I have just a few points to make on this:
- How does the marriage of two people, gay or straight, effect you one way or the other?
- How is the decision between what is right or wrong in the eyes of the Lord made, exactly? The argument seems to rest on right and wrong, what is an abomination to the Lord, blah, blah, blah. Who decided which religion was right, and which religion would help guide us to the correct interpretation of the Bible that we seem to be basing this basic human right to love whomever one chooses. I’d like to have a conversation with this person to ask a few more questions. Like…how they came to this interpretation, and why we’re following the “literal” interpretation of a book that was written before our lives were even relevant. I look at the Bible more like a general set of guidelines with some pretty great stories. To take it literally is not only dangerous, but will likely get you thrown in jail a few thousand times over.
- And finally, whatever happened to se paration of church and state? Separation of Church and State (forgive my feable understanding of politics…I’m afterall still learning, and finding my way through it) to me means that we cannot punish people for things that are not built into the law. We build our laws based on the welfare of the majority. Murder – that’s a no brainer. We don’t allow murder, not because it’s etched into a big slate w ith 9 other rules, instead we don’t allow murder because it’s awful. It’s horrendous. It’s unfair, and to have a law against it protects the greater majority. But…oh, wait…walk with me on this one…in some states, the state themselves carry out murder. They put inmates to death. That’s clearly against the Ten Commandments. Yet, here we are disallowing two people who love and want to spend the rest of their lives together to marry, enjoy the tax benefits of being married and enjoy the benefits of sharing health care?
Really? I mean, seriously. It’s ok for states to kill prisoners 9which I’m for by the way – not because of some eye for eye policy in the Good Book, but instead because there are just some people who don’t deserve to be alive for the pain and heartache they have caused on this planet. But, on the flip side, we can take something something so grave and make it the duty of the state, but we’re going to deprive a massive community of our population from the basic rights that the rest of us as humans enjoy.
Some things to think about. Proposal 8 is a joke. The fact that it even ended up on the ballot is unconstitutional. The sole reason I hear for the people who are against Gay Marriage is that it’s wrong. That it’s against God. Just read the Bible…you’ll see. So…if that’s the excuse…it’s wrong in God’s eyes, show me where he himself said so, and then we’ll talk. Until then, let’s do a blanket allowance to abolish any such laws.
