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On a warm and windy day, the streets of downtown San Diego were flooded Saturday with some 20,000 gays, lesbians and their supporters in denouncing Proposition 8.
The recently voted on proposition returned California to the law that marriage is defined as that between a man and a woman. Four judges went against the people's previous vote back in May and overturned the previous will of the majority.
San Diego was just one of a number of cities on Saturday where those supporting same-sex marriage marched. They vowed to continue the fight against Prop 8.
According to supporters of same-sex marriage, they are planning a Dec. 10 “Day Without a Gay” that encourages backers to volunteer instead of going to work and a Jan. 10 coast-to-coast protest.
As a supporter of Yes on Prop 8, one item still interests me to this day.
Why, when 70 percent of blacks supported Yes on Prop 8 in California two weeks ago, are gays and lesbians not protesting in front of black churches around California. They've protested in front of Mormon churches who backed Yes on Prop 8, but not black churches. Could it be fear of being politically incorrect or fear of retribution?
Some gays and lesbians equate their struggle to that of blacks yearning for civil rights for decades. Quite simply, they are not the same. People do not choose their skin color, but they do choose their interests in men and women.
While Californians approved Prop 8, voters in Arizona and Florida also backed bans on same-sex marriage. Meantime, Connecticut last week became the second state (Massachusetts) to legalize same-sex marriage.
Supporters of same-sex marriage vow the fight is not over in California and elsewhere. I appreciate that and would kindly like to let them know that those opposed to same-sex marriage will not rest either.
Call us haters, bigots, etc., but you know deep down when you get by all the fanatical rhetoric that we simply took part in the democratic process on Election Day and used our rights as Americans to vote.
For that, we are not bigots, haters, etc. For that, we are hard-working, tax paying Americans just like you. You want what you label as equal rights for your lifestyle, yet many of you are the ones showing the anger and hate towards those who disagree with you.
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