Prop Eight
When You're Lovers in a Dangerous Time,
Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
You gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds day light....
I know I have been posting a lot of politcally driven notes lately but I feel it needs to be done. Words cannot express how happy I am that America has finally come to its senses and has started heading in the right direction. However, as most of you know, Proposition Eight, an amendment that would outlaw and anull all gay marriages, passed last night...
...The Whole World's Waking up...I'm happy just because, I found out I am really no one.
This is devasting. The right to love and reep the benifits of that love was denied to thousands of people. Not only to those in California but to those of us who saw a glimpse of hope, to those of us who believed that the world was not such a hateful place, that things were getting better. To those of you in the LGBT community, I ask you not to lose hope, to not let them take it from you. They will try to take away our rights, our sense of safety, and even in a few tragic cases, our lives, but do not let them rob you of our hope or our love. We must keep fighting, keep fighting for a better tomorrow, keep fighting for the change we have been promised for so long now.
Higher and higher, we're gonna take it,
Down to the wire, we're gonna make it,
Out of the fire,
Higher and Higher...
To those of you blessed enough to live in Massachusetts where gay marraiges are accepted and legal, please do not stop fighting for the rest of the country.
To our straight allies, we need you more than ever. Help show the rest of the world that we mean no harm, we simply want to love in peace.
To those of you in California and else where, where we are second class citizens, do not lose hope. Keep strong, together we can change the world. It might take every ounce of strength we have, we may feel like the world will never change, but it will. With the exception of Prop Eight, that was proved last night...
It ain't hard to hope when it shines like gold....