Declaration Of Culture War

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November 4’Th was a day of celebration. That’s an uh-duh statement if you've never heard one but not everybody was partying. But prop 8 and other measures like it that passed shouldn't be viewed as a defeat as much as a lesson. Want to end hetero-supremacist rule. Then you have to agree this statement: if they want a war, I say we bring it. Kindness will no longer be mistaken for weakness.



November 4’Th was a day of celebration across America, but many battles that day were lost. Gay rights in many states and especially in California were yet again tossed aside. California was the most disappointing. Aside from the fact the states constitution was amended to take away rights. Not to deny rights but to strip them away. Aside from the fact that 70% of blacks and 50% of Latinos supported yes on 8. Never mind the fact that the Mormon church in Utah and the Catholic church stepped over the line that separates church and state by funding commercials supporting prop 8 and sending out disinformation. Injury is never enough. Insult is mandatory. Prop 2 won. Chickens get treated with more dignity and decency than gay people. Would your like some icing on your cake? Of coarse you would. What the fuck? That’s all I can really say. 1’st let me say to the 30% of the African American community and the 50% of the Latino community that sided with us let me say thank you and that you will always have a place in my heart. As for the rest of you. Black people and Latinos! Really? Slavery, the 60’s and the zoot suit riot. The L.A.P.D and the I.N.S now I.C.E. Have we really moved up in the world? (David is multi-racial and Guy feels that ethnicity is irrelevant) Maybe it’s just me being both gay and darker than a brown paper bag but I grew up always believing than not having to sit in the back of the bus meant you brought other people up with you. Not having a perfect spot to throw people under it. On the night that after 232 years of a white’s only sign above the oval office door, progress was finally made. 70% of African Americans and 50% celebrated by voting to oppress people who overwhelmingly voted for Obama. That one personally hurt. But we will have a dialog. We will remind your of where you come from either by community out-reach or by example.


    &am p;nb sp;   But today is a brand new day. We lost a battle. But this war is far from over. Not even laws written in stone are forever. If our loss in California proves anything it’s that we’ve been fighting for our rights the wrong way. To say it as plainly as possible we really haven’t been fighting at all. For the past 30 years or so we thought that the religious right was the only thing holding us back. That the chain on our ankles was solely the hetero-supremacist. But it’s also been among other things relying on lawyers and P.R firms. We haven’t been fighting for our rights really. We’ve been paying lawyers to sit up and beg in front of a judge for us. We’ve given money to P.R firms to help improve our image. But fighting? We only seem to protest when the cameras are around. If we aren’t then we must not be doing anything worth paying attention to. The yes on prop 8 shouldn’t be viewed as a defeat. This should be a lesson. Allow me to save “those in the know” some time doing an autopsy” on 11-04-08.


    &am p;nb sp;   November 4, 2008 was the day that suing for equality, trying to buy dignity and justice, died. We raised $43.6 million, compared with just $29.8 million by the pro 8 side in California (time.com http://www.time.com/time/na tion/article/0,8599,1856872 ,00.html).


    &am p;nb sp;    We make a dent in the hetero-supremacist barriers. The religious right points at us and then says to their sheep and says give us money. The sheeple fork over the money and some makes it to commercials that get us right back where we started. Same with the politicians. Now is the time to go old school.  If we aren’t allowed to be a productive part of society. It’s time be a disruptive part of it. The louder we shout from every roof top. From every street corner. The more people know that we are human beings. That we are people that are being oppressed. No more giving money to politicians that won’t tow our line. Nor shall they march in our parades. The word faggot and terms like that’s so gay are not to be brushed off. A bully stops being a bully when he catches a fist in the nose for being a bully. And no more tearing ourselves down. For to long we’ve separated ourselves with terms like butch, fem and the most insulting of them all straight acting. To elevate a trait is to elevate our oppressor. Black people don’t strive to be white acting. We don’t need to tear ourselves down. Plenty of others will be all too happy to oblige. We have to cut our enemies off at the knees. If the religious right wants to keep us down and use their money and their political influence like a sledge hammer then it’s long past time to start working to revoke their tax exempt status. If they wish to be part of the political process. Then they must pay the dues we all pay. Further more if we’re going to sue anybody lets start with the government. They’re derelict in their duties enforcing the separation of church and state.


    &am p;nb sp;   If marriage is strictly between a man and a woman then so is everything else. Let start work on a prop in every state in the union. No more tax breaks from the state and only one parent gets to write off the kids. What ever benefits are the result of taxpayer protection should no longer apply to marriage until it applies to everyone. After all one mans benefit is another mans burden. Especially since if you’re straight there’s a chance that you might get married then there’s really one group that’s paying for those benefits in the long run. For to long our marriages commitment ceremonies and even funerals have had a few to many guests. From now at least one weekend a month. We must pay a visit to where the extra chromosome crowd wears their best. Let protest as they go in and come out of their churches, synagogues and mosques. We are oppressed because we are seen as weak. It’s time to show the religious nuts and the hetero-supremacist that we are not only capable of being angry. But we are more than capable of being pissed off. For to long we have been nice and patient and deferential. For to long kindness has been mistaken for weakness. No more!


    &am p;nb sp;   We will not settle for civil unions, domestic partnerships or anything that is not marriage. We will not take the back of the bus. We will not settle for separate but equal. Because we know that’s not true. When we had separate but equal public bathrooms, how often do you think those were cleaned and maintained? Same with the separate but equal drinking fountains and schools. Further more there’s no reason to trust that there would be any long-term equality over time. And further more anyone who advocates for anything but marriage (usually straight people) doesn’t grasp our struggle. This is our fight. When we wake up in the morning we are the ones that are second class citizens. When we look in the mirror we are the one who lives in what’s supposed to be a free country and yet are not free. This is our fight. Even our allies can never quite know what it’s like to be us. The front line is calling us. We can’t count on “liberal straight people” to help us. Because many of them will throw us under the bus to suit their needs. Don’t believe me. "Obama can’t legalize gay marriage in his first term or he won’t get a second term." That’s what a lot of liberal talk radio host (Cenk Uygur) are saying. With that kind of language is it really a stretch if I say that in 4 years they’ll be telling us that Obama can’t legalize gay marriage because that’ll hurt the democrat that’s running to fill his seat when he leaves. Sounds like too much of a stretch? I guess no one remembers don’t ask don’t tell. Thanks Bill! Sadly no one ever stops to think that when you use people as pawns that they can somewhere down the road become martyrs. This has to be our issue number 1 because at the end of the day it’s no one else’s. As for Obama if he pulls a Clinton. We Should vote him out regardless of the stance of his opponents. We will no longer be used.


    &am p;nb sp;   We are not a sub-culture, a life-style and the only choice that we have made is not to lie to ourselves and those we love. We are more than just people. We are a people. A people that is beyond race, religion, sex or national origin. We have a shared history. Our cultures are similar and we all face the same threats. And when we are threaten we all stand together and stare down the beast. We fight for our rights even if we don’t know if we’ll be equal in our lifetime. We fight even though we know some may die just in site of a long praised promise land. Thomas Jefferson once said that the tree of liberty must be nourished with the blood of patriots and tyrants. What we don’t gain today will be a gift for our children. Our friend’s children. Our family children. And the children of those we may never see. Never again will we loose a battle without taking our oppressors down with us. As for our enemies, they don’t have to like us or love us. They don’t need to cheer at our victories nor lament at our failings. I don’t even expect that should I find myself lying in the road that they would lend me a hand. I expect only one of 2 things. Respect us or fear us enough to leave us the fuck alone.


Guy Renard

David Jordan

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Is it time for the gay community to change and become more vocal
Hell Yess. Skipp past Martin Luther King and go str8 for Malcolm X. 30%
Yes. it's long over due. time to find a gay Martin Luther King 23%
The G.L.B.T community needs to step up their game but not to much 61%
Be Vocal but don't loose the hearts and minds you've won 7%
Be Patient and equality will come 7%
what the hell are the queers bitching about. better gay here than anywhere else. 0%
no opinion. don't really care 0%
things have gone to far as it is. 0%

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I dig. (none / 0)

Yes, there is a lot about which we can be angry.  A black preacher, long a struggler himself for civil rights, used his pulpit to summon the forces of discrimination against others.  Hypocrisy and cruelty have again reared their ugly heads.

But there is much good to report even in the vote for Proposition 8.  Public sentiment against homosexual marriage used to be at least 61%, and it is substantially lower now.  Homosexuals can form various forms of "civil unions", and as unequal as those are, they are at least a recognition by the majority that justice is due.

Homosexuals have had a long struggle for acceptance, but the struggle will not last much longer.  The generation just born supports the cause, and equality will prevail.

Please continue to press your case.  But you should recognize that uncivil action would retard the growing public sentiment in your favor.

by EveningStarNM on 11/08/2008 03:13:01 AM EST

Have you seen the big protests? (none / 0)
They are vocal. Its just a bit late

I dont think there is a gay "community" anymore.  

by Chinese Democracy on 11/08/2008 02:37:25 PM EST

good! (none / 0)

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