Prop 8 passed - UNFAIR. UNJUST. DISAPOINTING.

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After being so happy that Barack Obama was elected to be the US President I was constantly checking for updates on Prop 8. I waited all day only to find out that some people don't care if gay people can't marry the person that they love. That they'd prefer to reserve that basic human right of happiness for themselves. That we should "Stay Straight and Protect Marriage". It's not right. I'm disappointed to say the least, I thought we were SO ready to stop discriminating.
I found this letter on the website deviantART, and I couldn't have said it any better. I thought I'd share it with you all.

"Dear Yes on 8 supporters,

Hey there. I’m going to go out on a limb here that most of you are feeling pretty proud of yourselves right now, patting each other on the back for your near victory of 3%. It must feel good to win huh? God knows I would be proud too if I wok up to find that my vote had such an impact on thousands upon thousands of people. I must say, I’d be pretty elated over the defeat of the US’s strides for separation of church and state, the victory over the very things our fore fathers fought and died for –the things our country was founded on, Yes, I have to say, I’d be pretty enthralled with myself for the devastation of an enormous group of people, but I’m not.

I’m not because I voted no to legal discrimination; no to the idea that a religiously founded belief and opinion should have any say in the legal constitution which rules over other people who may not have the same beliefs. I voted no because I felt there was a greater need for human equality and compassion than the whims of an organized religion that practices intolerance and promotes the sub-human treatment of a group of people. I voted no because I could not bring myself to believe in the hypocrisy of a love that would deny people fundamental rights supposedly granted to everyone."

To read the letter in full (it was pretty long but the things she said just made so much sense): Dear Yes Voters letter 
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I hope that one day, gay people will be able to freely and legally have the same right as straight people to marry the person that they love.
There is not point in just waiting for it to happen, we need to take a stand and fight for the rights that all human beings deserve.

Thanks to all who voted NO to Prop 8.
Stay Safe,
Sam. 
xoxo