Shortly after the 2008 election, when people of color were the tipping point to defeat/outlaw same-sex marriages, they looked different to me.
I was surprised at a new feeling in my gut:
That person that just walked past me is a member of "that race". The race that voted 7 out of 10 to discriminate against me based on the way that God made me different from the majority.
What drove people of color to the polls to vote against me? It was lies and racism perpetuated and orchestrated by the Republican Party. That was their agenda in 2008 and now their power play in 2012. Racism against the LGBT community will carry Romney into the White House and confirm a GOP Congress.
Playing the racist anti-gay card in the GOP is done with no backlash. Romney himself contributed his own money to encourage it. The contribution went to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). He took their pledgeto work towards national bans on same-sex marriages and to end same-sex adoption.
It’s practically impossible to be more conservative Republican than NOM
Shortly after sighting that person of color, I walked past my local Mormon church. I saw a nice sign out front that said "Everyone Welcome". Yeah right. Everyone except millions of Americans that happen to be members of my family. My greater gay (LGBT) family. There was that feeling in my gut again. This is where people that support racism worship. Surely I thought, not Mormons in my own community. Perhaps I wished they were different and more accepting. I found it hard to believe people like that would live in my area.
But who am I kidding? Manufactured fear, hate, racism, and being un-American is alive and well in politics these days. It's proven right in the Court documents.
The Republicans are happy. What matters is the vote in the swing states.
Seven of nine swing states expected to be close in the presidential election have laws or constitutional provisions that prohibit same-sex marriage. Further, many States have ballot measures against same-sex marriage that will draw conservatives like bees to honey (or should that be toe tapping anti-gay Republicans to restrooms in airports).
So lets face it people, racism and combating racism, is the key issue for 2012.
So what should you do if you don't support Conservative agenda?
1. Call a spade a spade. Romney is a racist bully. His own pledge confirmed that.
2. Republicans feed off hate and discrimination. Make sure others know you are above that. Ask is that being American? Does Romney's pledge to have a Presidential investigation into those that support same-sex marriage sound American to you?
3. Talk about, meet, and learn about this minority community that walks among you.
4. Endorse and show affirming examples of same-sex couples, and same-sex adoptions.
The choice is clear. Accept a Conservative Republican president, or the nice family down your street. Black power brokers are already telling people of color to stop supporting President Obama. The division is real, and the situation is bleak.
Please take the poll.
p.s. I see a lot of angry denials in the comments. If you have trouble believing the truth, follow the links above. Truth hurts. Further sorry if you support that party. Maybe you can help change it. Any party that depends upon racism to gain votes and promises at the highest level to eliminate judges that protect minority rights is evil. Plan simple evil.
I think any political party that seeks to create division for its own gain rings too close to this famous quote:
There are citizens of the United States ... who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life; who have sought to ring the authority and good name of our Government into contempt ... to destroy our industries ... and to debase our politics to the uses of foreign intrigue.... [W]e are without adequate federal laws.... I am urging you to do nothing less than save the honor and self-respect of the nation. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty,and anarchy must be crushed out.
President Woodrow Wilson December 7, 1915