Total H8 on Prop 8

Dear California,

GO FUCK YOURSELF.  TWICE.

Kisses,

Alicia

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Maybe I should attempt to be more eloquent.  As you may or may not know, minutes ago California decided that discrimination based on who someone goes home to at the end of the night is okay.  Oh, except for those 18,000 of you that already did get married, I guess you're okay, since, you know...our bad.

I couldn't be more infuriated right now if I tried.

I think that people are so blinded by religion and by being in a majority.  There is a separation of church & state--I know--shocking!--considering that our ol' boy GWBush sort of forgot this & fucked up what little progress the Clinton administration made.

Let me make myself clear--because I don't think the hysterical religious are understanding this quite clearly--NO ONE IS ASKING YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS TO PERFORM THESE MARRIAGES.  SHIT, they're not even asking you to RECOGNIZE THEM (so you can stay in your tiny bubbles of ignorance)...all they are asking for are for the same rights as EVERY OTHER citizen in this country.  The right to visit their loved ones in the hospital, inheritence, health care, etc... that all you wingnuts consider "sacred"--your religious marriage DOES NOT provide these things...so why do you care?!  This is purely on a state level yet people are trying to turn it into a moral issue.  Besides the fact that I think it is absolutely nutters for anyone to consider LOVE immoral, it is NOT a moral issue.  I know and love FAR TOO MANY people in this country that deserve more than this.  All they want is the ability to love freely and share the benefits and rights given to citizens of this country who are married.

HOW can this country allow people like Spencer and Heidi from The Hills, like people on that awful old Fox (which in and of itself is hilarious) reality TV show "Married By America", like those who get married just to stay in this COUNTRY--how are all of them ALLOWED when these people who actually love each other, cannot. I don't call this upholding the sacred sacrament of marriage.  These shows, these hodge-podged marriages make a mockery out of marriage--NOT two women or two men who love each other!

And how do your political and social ideologies allow you in good conscious to let 18,000 people get married but not anyone else that wants to?  It's heartless and unfair.  EARTH TO AMERICA -- HAVE YOU SEEN A FAIR GRANDFATHER CLAUSE BEFORE?  There's no such thing as "Separate but Equal"--and this is even worse.

To say I am upset is an understatement--this is a total disregard for a group that is a minority in this country when those of us in the majority have a CIVIC DUTY to ensure that those not in that majority are taken care for and governed the same way & equally.

I am ashamed of California & the people of that state--and ANY state--that find it their right to take away the rights of others.  SHAME ON YOU.