This is about Proposition 8 in California. I keep seeing the vitriol increase, and I keep seeing the same thing; you got set up.
I wouldn't normally write a diary like this, because it's going to be short and sweet. All these comments and ongoing increasing warfare has driven me to this, at 2:37 in the morning, mountain time.
Blacks don't hate gays. Gay's don't hate blacks. Religious people don't routinely hate gays, and they don't routinely hate blacks.
Gays were given full civil rights in California and had them taken away. Gays are now going postal about it. This was predictable and understandable.
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Oppressed people who are given new liberties and freedoms that are then taken away, are highly likely to become much more rebellious than people who never had them in the first place. Look at what happened in Russia when the KGB put Gorbachev under house arrest in 1991, after he instituted new liberties. People thought the Russians would go back to being good little sheep. Instead, they took to the streets and started storming tanks.
Imagine Americans storming tanks. Can you?
The LDS church doesn't comprise simply people who hate gays, or hate blacks, or hate anybody in particular. They have no special track record of caring about blacks or gays, though. Some members care about both, some members are torn about being part of the church, some are so adhered to the church that they still want to keep themselves in both arenas, schizy though this may be. Who got this going? The people in the lower echelons of the church, the people who are uneasy to say the least, about the passing of Prop 8? I don't think so.
Who is the enemy? They must exist. They must be analyzed, they must be determined. They must be addressed.
Meanwhile, there are angry people here, that's not going to go away. Lots of the anger on Kos lately is about this; dealing with this anger here that is not going away. Getting angry at the angry people doesn't do it. Working on how to direct the anger is the only way. All these trashing diaries are like a bunch of hamsters chewing themselves to bits. Get Focused. Help our gay Kos members here to get focused; they're besides themselves with rage, and deservedly so. Don't just put your own frustrations and anxieties on them.
I know, I know. This asks a lot; everybody has a lot to be anxious about. I'm just asking everybody to think, for just a minute at least, about how insulting it is to not only have your civil rights denied, but to have them finally be allowed and then fucking taken away again. I'm asking you to think, for just a minute, about what that might feel like, and how crazy that might make you, when it affected everything you might ever aspire to as to making yourself a family.
Please?
Miep