Below is an excerpt from the October 13th issue of the Sacramento Bee.
Reading it made me feel very sad...the article is a dispiriting reminder that there are actually people in this world willing to put forth such a strong effort to eradicate the human rights of those who have a sexual preference different from their own. I'm still scratching my head, trying to figure out where the "Separation of Church and State" ran off to.
Unfortunately, the abhorrence goes beyond the walls of the church. The discomfort and hatred doesn't always come from those who believe in their hearts that it is against their faith to condone (let alone approve of) same-sex relations. All religious beliefs aside, people just simply don't like the idea of homosexuality, and they want it out of sight and out of mind.
I'm not asking the rest of the world to share my feelings...if you disapprove of same-sex marriage, that is your choice, and you are entitled to that. I am, however, extremely against and saddened by this movement to take away the rights of anyone who wishes to marry somebody of the same sex. Marriage is a right that should never be taken away from anybody, no matter who they are, no matter what they believe in. I always believed that America was a country that stood for equal oppurtunity. True equality is all-encompassing, not selective.
I'm gonna stop now, I'm afraid of crossing that fine line between opinionated and downright preachy.
I can only hope that this is just a rough patch that we are hitting on an uphill climb to a more accepting society.
Mormons lead the way in financing Yes on Prop. 8 efforts
By Jennifer Garza jgarza@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 Page 1A
Pam and Rick Patterson have always followed teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and tried to live within their means.
He drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic to his job at Intel. She is a stay-at home mom who makes most of the family meals and bakes her own bread. The couple, who have five sons between the ages of 3 and 12, live in a comfortable but modest three-bedroom home in Folsom.
It's a traditional lifestyle they believe is now at risk. That's why the Pattersons recently made a huge financial sacrifice – they withdrew $50,000 from their savings and donated it to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, the ballot measure that seeks to ban same-sex marriage.
"It was a decision we made very prayerfully and carefully," said Pam Patterson, 48. "Was it an easy decision? No. But it was a clear decision, one that had so much potential to benefit our children and their children."
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Wow.. I actually had to read that article twice to fully grasp how these people actually utilized their saved up money like someone else would on their child's ambitious college tuition. No, instead they used it to help take away the rights of other people- the rights of other human beings. Of course, they don't see it like that at all. They feel taking away these rights has "so much potential to benefit our children and their children."
Looking at history, it's hard to say America was ever a country that stood for equality, with pathetic prejudices against women, blacks & other groups. My question is how they can look at the past, scoffing at how disgusting those inequalities were (especially someone who's ancestors had to DEAL with those inequalities) and then be okay to turn around and set those same inequalities against another minority.
Disgusting.
It makes my lip involuntarily curl up like Elvis'.
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