Editor, Daily Nexus,
This is in response to the recent staff editorial in the opinion section titled (“Passage of Prop 8 Shames CA,” Daily Nexus, Nov. 5) Embarrassed to be called a Californian? I think not. You should be ashamed to even say that.
Just because California does something you do not approve of does not allow you to go and denounce California. This is your home, be proud! California is the Golden State, and we are ahead of the rest in terms of equal rights. We are just not ready for the next step, so don’t criticize the majority for speaking their opinion.
Calling those who don’t approve of gay marriage an “ignorant, hypocritical crowd” is just wrong. How would you like it if people called those who approve of gay marriage “ignorant, gay-loving sinners?” This is in no way true, but it is still offensive. So all I’m trying to say is no name calling please. Keep it clean and fair.
As for comparing gay rights to civil rights, well didn’t the civil rights movement take time? We have made progress toward gay rights. Is homosexuality not more widely accepted? So give it some time and quit taking this out on California. Saying you’re embarrassed to be a Californian just because Prop 8 passed makes me wonder what you would have said if McCain was elected.
Hi Rebecca, Welcome to college. On that note, yes. I would loudly proclaim my disdain for America if McCain were elected. I am remarkably irritated when hatred rather than love, when discrimination rather than equality, when religious bigotry rather than civil tolerance takes hold of a state or a nation. Maybe it’s just me. As for being ahead in civil rights, I know that since you’re in college now, you think you’re all up and hip with national politics. However, pick up a newspaper before you decide to submit a paper read by thousands. Massachusetts has legalized gay/lesbian marriage four… Read more »
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You and the rest of the Republicans have this same idiotic logic that you MUST support your leader, your country, etc. no matter what they do. That is stupid. Being proud means that there is merit, and there is absolutely NOTHING good about discrimination.
Interracial marriage was decriminalized in California about 45 years ago. This vote brought back "separate but equal" bs that does not work and it is an embarrassment for the state.
I don’t knowI know for a fact that my Dad voted in favor of Prop. 8 because he thinks the Bible says homosexuality is morally wrong. He claims to love and respect LGBT relatives, while simultaneously calling them sinners (granted, he takes the stance that we are all sinners; in his opinion, being queer is just one line on a long laundry list) and in this instance voting to take away their rights. I have tried to explain to him time and again that the Bible does not actually condemn homosexuality–or at least it didn’t, until some asshole in the… Read more »
Thanks brianischipper for that extremely condescending first sentence. You say you want civil tolerance, not hatred, yet you express hatred for those who don’t agree with you. Ironic. To hate haters. I am not in a position to contribute to the whole gay marriage issue right now, but the fact that you disdain everyone who voted yes on prop 8 and McCain is despicable. Civil tolerance. . . my ass.
I harbor disdain for those who voted yes on 8 and voted republican.
Dear Jerry Kim 2,
Civil tolerance doesn’t mean being tolerant of the intolerant.
Kthnx.
by the way
why doesn’t a constitutional amendment require more than a simple majority to pass? isn’t a constitution important for protecting rights of citizens against all of the "-ist" elements in our society?
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