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Ladies and gentlemen: This year I was excited to think about the bright future that our country and state were headed.
I felt like a kid waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney. But Santa never came, and I had to enter the world of reality and understand that some things are just a dream.
Kind of like how equality for all Americans has become.
I just don't understand it. How do we as a people tote the ideas of freedom and enforce the belief that democracy is the best form of self-government?
We allow ourselves to be frightened into voting against a group of people who are doing no harm to anyone, who are members of this country just the same as a straight man or woman is.
I'm talking about the gay community.
As much as you may or may not like it, these people are American citizens. We all cherish the document that highlights how this government by the people and for the people is to work. And it clearly states that all Americans are equal and have the same rights and privileges.
With the results from Nov. 4 , it is clear to me that just a bit over half of the state of California decided to wipe its ass with the Constitution and the 14th amendment. But that's just the smallest of the problems I'm seeing.
The one that really scares me is the fact that it is so easy for the whimpering mob to take rights away from a group of people - and because it was done in a democratic manner - feel good about it.
It also scares the hell out of me that it would only take the right push to make the people in this state so fearful of other people that they would take more rights away or start attacking another group of people that are not considered socially acceptable.
What's next, folks? Are we going to have them start wearing little pink triangles, so we can spot them in crowds and have them removed from our sight? Are we just going to start telling them they can no longer teach in schools or attend public events?
Hell, how much fear will it take to really push the mob into doing something really stupid like interning same-sex couples.
Ladies and gentlemen: Please, if your going to wipe with something, make sure its toilet paper, not the Constitution.
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