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Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 @ 12:58 a.m.

I cannot believe how many churches pushed for prop 8 as a crusade against their fellow man, whom the last time I checked, came from the very same creator according to their scriptures.

I have my issues with organized religion, but that's a whole another topic. Whichever the faction of christians that voted for prop 8, the fact of the matter is, thousands of Californians lost some 1,138 rights, and we cannot wait for all the cluelessly pious to be enlightened before things get fixed. It could take decades, or it could NEVER happen. Someone or some group higher up in the food chain HAS to do something about this injustice... and the mere fact that 52% of Californians had the gall to go up in the polling booths, read "Eliminates the right [of their fellow human beings]", and check "YES". That fact alone... is a social cataclysm of unspeakable proportions.

Yes, the religiously clueless people need to be educated. But the injustice that has been inflicted upon thousands of Californians - and in fact, humanity - needs to be fixed NOW. If we had waited to educate the opponents of interracial marriage a few decades ago, it may not even have been overturned to this very day. "Getting used to it" is a much quicker solution than "Changing their minds", IMO... and in the case of interracial marriage, we only have the "activist judges" from the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case which overturned that ban to thank.

We need those "activist judges" again now, more than ever, to stifle the regression of the human race. The rights of the minority can rarely ever be left to the decisions of the majority.

But anyway, I saw this commentary by Keith Olbermann tonight, and wow... am I deeply moved by what he expressed. As disappointed as I am about prop 8, I am undoubtedly grateful to all our allies that supported the defense of our rights. These people were straight, had no personal interest in the outcome of prop 8, but yet fought as passionately as those of us that did... and are fighting still. It's these people who remind us that despite the sheer numbers of intolerant, self-righteousness nazis out there, there may still be hope for the human condition after all.

Now, I'm gonna turn it over to Mr. Olbermann, who has so succinctly and eloquently expressed EVERYTHING I've been feeling since the bittersweet evening of November 4th. I seriously hope that his words will resonate all the way to the supreme court.

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