I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I didn’t ask them to come and do this, and they’re doing it on their own ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ not with my approval.
- TX state Rep. Warren Chisum (R-Pampa)
Gee, you’d think that the backers of Prop 2 would be happy for any and all help they could get. After all, hatemongers are all peddling essentially the same idea, right? You’re different; ergo, we hate you. Apparently, though, for some folks it’s OK to hate you because of whom you might be sleeping with, but it’s not OK to hate you because of the color of your skin. Amazingly, these hatemongers have standards. Whodathunkit??
Of course, the proponents of Prop 2 are at least making the pretense of acting as if their initiative is not about hatred, discrimination, and marginalizing those who happen to adhere to a different lifestyle. Hey, if the majority rules, then the majority can certainly force a minority class of individuals to the margins of legal and social rights, eh? AND they can claim to be doing so in defense of “family”. According to these troglodytes, there is only one definition of “family” that they can live with- man, woman, and children. By that definition, of course, marriage can only be between a man and a woman. Anything else is, well, an abomination before God. Right. So, how’s that judgemental self-righteousness working out for you??
All the folks behind Prop 2 are trying to do is to save Texas for good, God-fearing straight White Christians. First, they’re going to try to keep Da Gayz from acting as if the’re married; next they’ll be wanting to frog-march them into Oklahoma or Louisiana. Then they can get to work on the next biggest scourge facing Texas today- Democrats. Yep, first Da Gayz and then Da Libruls. Once Texas is finally purged of the abomination before God that is these two groups, Texas ought to be pret’near perfect, eh? Welcome to Paradise on the Prairie: A Good, God-Fearing, White Folks Production.
AUSTIN - Backers of a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot that would bar same-sex marriage quickly distanced themselves Wednesday from an upcoming “anti-homosexual marriage rally” sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan.
The city of Austin confirms that it has granted a pre-election reservation to the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which requested space on the City Hall south plaza for two speakers, two microphones, flags, banners and signs.
The group plans to rally Nov. 5 in favor of Proposition 2, the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Texas statutes already ban recognition of gay marriage in Texas.
“I think it is most unfortunate. I certainly think it doesn’t help any issue to have the Ku Klux Klan associated with it,” said Laurence White, pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Houston and head of the Texas Restoration Project, which is encouraging Christian conservatives to vote in the election….
Jessica Edwards, state secretary of the Texas arm of the American White Knights of the KKK, described the event as a “Pro Family Values Rally” in her request, but the group’s Web site bills it as an “anti-homosexual marriage rally.”
Edwards wrote that the group is a “peaceful organization” but that “obviously” security will be an issue. “Our speech will not be inflammatory, but we all know the reputation of the name of the KKK, so we expect anti-Klan demonstrators to be there who may become violent,” she wrote.
Right; we’ll behave, but you never can account for those nigger-lovin’, Jew-toleratin’, We-Love-Everybody Libruls, can you? Lord knows they’ll just rip stuff up if given half a chance. That Edwards probably said this with a straight face is enough to qualify her for a DUMB@$$ AWARD, but I hate to devote any more attention to this lunatic than I absolutely have to.
The fact that the KKK is coming out in support of Prop 2 should hardly come as a surprise. Hell, they hate everyone and everything that doesn’t look, act, and think as they think White Folks should. That the KKK’s support for Prop 2 is giving the initiative’s backers indigestion is something I find endlessly amusing. What’s the problem? They’re on the same page as you, right? Or are you really so heavily invested in your own self-delusion that you really cannot see the similarities between yourselves and the KKK? You might think that by distancing yourself from the KKK that you are emphasizing your contention that you don’t support hate, and yet that is exactly what Prop 2 stands for. By enshrining the definition of marriage as one man/one woman in the Texas Constitution, Texans would consign an entire class to second-class status. An entire minority class of folks who more than anything else just want to be left alone will still be treated as second-class citizens, but now that discrimination will have the force of law here in the Great State of Texas.
Let think about this for a second, shall we? How would you feel if the person you loved were dying, and yet you were prevented from making ANY decisions regarding that person’s care because the Great State of Texas doesn’t recognize you as having any legal rights because you are not legally married? You may have been with this person for 20, 30, or 50 years, but you have NO LEGAL RIGHTS- not to common property, not to insurance benefits, not to ANY of the rights that normally accrue to and are taken for granted by married couples.
Look, if you don’t support gay marriage, then don’t marry a member of the same sex. Do you really want to be party to enshrining hatred and discrimination into the Constitution? You may think it’s about “protecting children” or the “sanctity of marriage” (yeah, like we heterosexuals have done such a bang-up job….), but that’s a smoke screen for the reality that Prop 2 supporters really just want Gays and Lesbians to disappear. Regardless of your own personal philosophy and/or prejudices, Gays and Lesbians are here among us, and they have every bit as much right to live their lives as they choose as the rest of us do. THEY DESERVE BETTER…and so do all of us fortunate enough to live in Texas.
Let’s not make hatred a family value.
