Yesterdays election was a rollercoaster of emotions. First, Obama got called. I was elated to see that we elected – finally – a competent person as president. As a bonus, it’s certainly a vindication for the civil rights movement.
After that, I decided to drive home and celebrate. And when I came home, I saw the first polls for Californias hate amendment, proposition 8. Let’s just say the elation was gone. It took me a while to get over the disappointment – I’ve been moping around, more or less.
But this afternoon I made the decision that this is not going to happen ever again. I’ll dedicate what spare time I have to help building a grass roots effort that will be able defeat proposition 8 and all similar efforts. I’m still not over the fact that “all men are created equal” is so hard to understand for some.
Anyways – this is not going to turn into a daily or even weekly thing on this blog. It deserves a separate effort. But until that is up, I’ll ask for your help from here:
Please help out. If you can spare an hour tomorrow at 2pm, be at the Los Angeles LDS temple at 10777 Santa Monica Blvd., between Westwood Blvd. and Beverly Glen.
We’re planning to protest the fact that one religion thinks they can enforce their version of morality on all Americans.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but from the articles I’ve been reading it looks like the Black community is primarily responsible for voting approval to Proposition 8. I thought the Latter Day Saints had a mostly White constituency? Even if they proposed it and fought to get it put on the ballot, they’re not responsible for its approval; the citizens who voted are. I don’t see what a protest outside the church of a minor sect is going to do, particularly since the Roman Catholic church was also supportive of the proposal and they’re infinitely larger. Might not your time be better spent reminding the populace that Civil Rights means Rights for EVERYBODY instead? I agree with you that the proposal is completely and totally wrong, no two ways about it, I just think a protest after the fact at the church of a Footnote is sort of useless.