I'm sure there are many of you out there watching the results of the election, either on tv or on CNN's site. As the votes come in, I find myself increasingly anxious. My fear of Bush winning is so strong. Now, I don't want to start an argument or anything, I'm merely expressing my thoughts, fears and opinions right now since no one else is home.
Most people dont have as much at risk as myself and other like me. My very rights as an American citizen are at stake! I'm worried that if Bush wins, he'll be the first president to amend the Constitution to take away rights. That should not be right.... to anyone! I'm scared of the hypocrisy that will come along with that. I will be made to pay all the taxes as everyone else, abide by the same laws as everyone else, but I will not be afforded all the same rights as everyone else. "Life, liberty and the persuit of happiness" is what the constitution says. But if Bush wins, my liberty will be taken away. I will be free to love whom I wish, but why should I not be able to marry whom I wish? There was a time not so long ago when it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry. That was fixed. Why? BEcause it just wasn't right! What ticks me off is that when the subject of same sex marriage comes up, the next thing in line is sisters marrying brothers, or being able to marry the family dog. We are not freaks! We are not sick! We ARE the same as everyone else in the eyes of the law. Why not just make us wear the pink triangle as Hitler did? Gays didn't have rights then either. I realise that people will jump in and say, "But you have all the other rights... why do you need this?" To that I say, why do YOU? The argument of procreation has been talked about. Ok. So what about infertile men and women? Should they not be allowed to marry because they are incapable of having children? It's the same thing. America prides itself on being the best country in the world. Great. Now PROVE it! Prove to the rest of the world that we are the greatest! Prove that this IS the land of the free! With EQUAL rights for everyone. I don't want anything special. I just want the SAME rights as the rest of the country. Is that so much to ask? Is it wrong of me to want the same as everyone else? Is it wrong of me to want to marry the woman I love and have it RECOGNISED? I don't think so. But maybe I'm wrong.
If Bush wins, I fear for this country. I fear for the rights of the GLBT community, I fear for the rights of women who are looked at as 2nd class citizens by the Bush admin. I fear for the much needed medical research, the fund for which will be decreased as Bush throws us into more war, more death and more pointless killing. All I can do at this point is keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks for letting me rant!
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