We Still Won.

It's sad that people feel they have the power to tell someone who they can or cannot marry. The passing of Prop. H8te has spread sadness through out my family and friends, but please keep your heads up. We won in the end dear family and friends. Winning does not only mean getting the "reward" at the end, we won by educating more people and spreading our love out there to our brothers and sisters. In the end we won and although we have not been able to keep our short right to marry, the voters saying "yes" looked ridicules, uneducated and just cold hearted. I look forward to the next vote because each year this comes up the margin gets closer and closer. I am so confident that this, like all the other civil rights will be given to our brothers and sisters. It just takes time. The black civil rights got what they wanted, so did the woman's rights movement, and soon my family and friends will too. I am excited for the next election, I believe we will win our reward that's at the end of the rainbow (literally!!). I am extremely confident that I will see the legalization of same sex marriages in my life time. Think of it, in 4 more years more old cold minded folk would have died and more educated open minded (every skin shade) will vote and give us all equality!! I appreciate each and everyone who has supported this cause, supported your friends, your family, your neighbors, your co-workers, and each person's rights. And this fight you have fought beside me with is greatly honored my friend. I was, I am, and I will forever always be a Freedom Fighter. Fighting for the freedom and equality for my family, friends, neighbors, and for you and I. I will never stop fighting.

On another note, there are many people who have surprised me in voting Yes on this hateful discrimination of Prop. H8te and it saddens me to hear them say such closed minded things. That sexual orientation is not like the black vote, that gays are not equal to that sort of comparison. How can you say that?? Wasn't it just a few decades ago blacks weren't even seen to be in the same RACE as humans?? They (blacks) were looked down as animals, no right to read, write, an education, legal marriage, or vote. I mean being black was seen (back then) as the worst thing ever and (white) people punished them just for their color of their skin. They didn't have control over their skin color. Just as same sex couples have no way of choosing to be gay. Same sex couple are seen as human, they have the right to read, write, and vote, much more rights than a black person had decades ago, so I just don't see how a fellow minority (black Americans who supported Yes) can say that same sex couples aren't able to be compared to the civil rights of blacks?? I mean if anything the black civil rights people looked down upon blacks saying basically they are not human, and most (they Prop. 8 supports) claim Yes on Prop. H8te, "isn't prejudice, it's just protecting marriage". So how can a person (a few decades back) get the right to marry, but not a human who's just prefers the same sex?? Answer me that America. I do not agree on ANY discrimination. I am proud to be a minority, but I am more proud to say I am an American. I think everyone should. Racism is discrimination so I'm glad each race has the same rights, but for those who voted Yes on Prop. H8te, that's discrimination just ask well. Whites (esp. males) will never fully understand discrimination, not to the degree of a ethnic (esp. woman) person. But imagine if the world saw whites to be the lowest rung of the human race?? Would you like it?? Wouldn't you be crushed that people found you beneath them and thought you didn't deserve rights? Wouldn't it fluster you that people think they should have the power to control any aspect over you?? And my fellow minorities, discrimination is something we have all had to endure. But would you like it if something like slavery came back or segregation laws?? Please, don't be a hypocrite or have a double standard.

We are California and we lead the way of the nation. But sadly I think we lost that touch because we seem to not be moving forward with our great state, we want to be held back. There are other states (and countries) who have opened their eyes and welcomed their brothers and sisters, I give my hats off to their progressive state and for once hope that California will follow them. Weird to have California not as a leader, but as a follower. But either way, I can't wait for us Californians to recognize the right each and every human being has.

This is a great editorial written by Fran Dresher, the cancer survivor and actor from the hit show, The Nanny.

"When did it become okay to discriminate? What country are we all living in anyway? I thought this was America, am I wrong?

Wake up folks before it’s too late! This country was founded on the premise of separation of church & state. And why do you suppose that was? Because back in the day of our forefathers, (ya know, the dudes who fought and died for our freedoms) life under an oppressive British empire was more than they could take.

Living in a “my way or the highway” nation sucked! Dictation, Denial and Discrimination was the name of the game until our founding fathers decided that they’d had it!

“Let freedom ring!”, they shouted. And a HUGE part of that freedom was of course separation of church and state. If you are truly an American, (and not some closeted fascist) you are part of the privileged few on the planet who get to live in a country that supports tolerance of diversity. Heck we celebrate it! We can be who we want to be, pray to whomever we choose to pray and live as equals regardless of gender, race, creed or sexual orientation.

To think that in this upcoming election there is actually a proposition to add an amendment to the California Constitution to legalize discrimination! Shame on us! This proposition is not about gay marriage; it’s about hate, discrimination and intolerance of diversity. It is wholesale, unadulterated hate-mongering and it MUST be snuffed out in a dramatic fashion at once to illustrate to those behind it that in America we embrace the neighbor who might be different from us and are proud of it!

So to all you TRUE Americans, get out there and vote on November 4th, and let’s reject hate.

Get all your friends, co-workers and relatives to vote too and make sure you vote NO on proposition 8.

Freedom Fighter,

Fran Drescher"

Til the next election my friend.

Love, A Freedom Fighter