Everybody stop.
Count to 10.
Take deep, centering breaths.
The anger is spiraling out of bounds.
First, if you can listen to The Stephanie Miller Show, turn it on. If it's not in your radio market, stream it here:
http://www.1480 kphx.com
Chris LaVoy is now begrudging chickens the rights they won in Prop. 2. This is exactly what we must prevent, because this is becoming what we despise. It's an understandable reaction, but it cannot be allowed to bear fruit.
We cannot turn against each other here. It is a small segment of the population that is to blame, for fostering resentment and ignorance in a larger segment of the population. The Black and Hispanic communities are NOT INHERENTLY opposed to gay rights. They have been manipulated like everyone else who doesn't yet understand what's at stake. To paraphrase: hate the ignorance, not the ignorant.
Prop 8 was underestimated. Now we more clearly understand the magnitude of the task ahead. The Black and Hispanic communities must be reached out to and embraced to dispel the ignorance that remains. Nothing else will work.
Obama has JUST WON the Presidency, and this is what we're doing?
The setbacks in AZ, CA and FL are terrible, but they are not final. They will be contested in court. What we all must do, but especially those who are most angry, is focus on the true source of the oppression.
It is NOT Blacks, Hispanics, Catholics, Mormons, or chickens. It is the small number of regressives who wield power in major cultural institutions.
Focus. Breathe. Se the big picture, and get back to work in solidarity.
Please.