JK!!!

k, for serious, just reading your post and realizing that I am feeling apathetic and blase… maybe just a tad fatalistic.
hmmm… need to get some anger going, somehow…

great post, btw.

I feel you on the homophobia, Jane, but I also realize that, sadly, this argument doesn’t play with the bigots because they don’t usually seem to consider marriage a right. And it would totally destroy straight marriage. And they’d be forced to marry gays. And children would end up with gay parents (scream!). And so on and so forth.

I feel so tired from this, just so, so tired, and I don’t know how you guys in CA manage to survive it. I feel horribly ashamed that when the bill was up in Utah to ban gay marriage, I just bit my knuckles, secretly voted against it but never talked about it with anyone. Things are so different for me now, but too little too late, huh?

Here’s one nice piece of information. My dad is very conservative and used to believe that gays shouldn’t have these rights. He believed this for monetary reasons; he considered it unfair that he lived with a woman for 10 years without sharing benefits but the gays get to do it. Recently he told me that he’s realized this is wrong. He now supports gay rights and is disgusted with his party for their actions against equality. Go Dad! (Now if only I could get him to believe in climate change…)

You’ve already hit upon a lot of them. The ignorant (too often republican) masses who hate the environment, gays, women, and the rights of everyone else but their own.

I’m angry at religion in general, but Mormonism in particular for “protecting the family” to the point where half of my family no longer communicates with the other half. Yeah, that’s protecting my family all right. Protecting us from communicating and accepting and loving each other. Good job Mr. Monson.

I’m angry at the media for being so soft on Palin, and thining that being unbiased means that they have to let the right wingers spew their lies with impunity, because to call them on their bullshit would be a “liberal media bias”. As long as they fact-check both sides and report what REALITY really is, then there’s no bias.

I’m angry that so much of my energy is being spent trying to secure rights that should already be mine, and angry that no matter how hard I try to convince “friends” and family that murdering the environment is a bad idea, they seem to think that jesus is coming soon anyways to destroy the earth, so why not rape it to death?

I’m angry that this has become a christian country instead of a secular haven for rationalists and science like it was supposed to be, like it was designed to be.

I’m passionate about tolerance for everyone and treating all humans with respect. I’m passionate about my rights being the same as everyone else’s, even the very religious, because even though I think that religion is ridiculous, equal rights means that they have the right to believe whatever the hell they want, so long as they DON’T harm anyone or infringe on everyone else’s rights.

I’m really angry that I have to keep explaining this OVER and OVER again. I’m angry that this is a country of adolescents who want their own way regardless of whom it impacts, because they’re right and everyone else is wrong, and they should go to Canada or Europe or Russia, the commie faggots, because the US is only for Moose-shooting, environment-raping, bible-thumping, gay-hating, muslim-killing, red-blooded, REAL AMERICANS.

*sigh*

I’m beginning to get jaded. I’m beginning to wonder if it is even possible to turn this country into a place of tolerance and acceptance, if the effort is even worth it, or if I really should just go somewhere else.