Thursday, August 13, 2009

EQCA Wrong to Put off Prop 8 vote till 2012!

I am officially turned off by Equality California. My erection, as a pillar of support, for this gay rights organization has officially went limp. Kind of like how their stance on proposition 8 and voter's opinion has went in the last few weeks. Apparently they don't believe that the votes will be there in 2010, and if we go ahead with that ballot initiative so soon, it will weaken our chances for 2012. But pre tell EQ, if the initiative fails in 2012 what will we do then? Will we simply give up until 2020? Or do you think an entire 16 years (2028) will suffice?

I ask this stupid questions because delaying the vote 2 more years is a stupid answer. I know some of you feel that we should "be kind and rewind" but give me a break. The safe route has been delt with for the last forty years. The only people who give a flying fuck about anything regarding gay rights and a protest and San Francisco, and even then, they're not pulling hair and causing police riots like they used to. Moscow got in on the action earlier this year, but come on, when doesn't a russian miss the chance to throw a good punch and a drinking party? Aside from that, we had one of the weakest campaigns in the history of poltical fights. We took the high road, but not just any high road. We took the high road that has a detour that winds all the way around the gawd-damn mountain, once around the river bend, and twice over the grand canyon. That was our highroad.
What road did Mary Gallagher and her cronies take? The one to your local church. They took that road to your prime time television station to tell your friends and family members that we're going to indoctrinate their children (Which I wish we would, by the way). They took that road that said if they failed, they would come back as soon as possible with every out of state big pocketed loser who was stupid enough to support them. They took the road that had people who claimed, just because we support the initiative to take your rights away doesn't mean you have the right to boycott my business (some of them even compared us to communist China).

I don't know how to put it any simpler. You don't put this on the 2010 ballot, you lose whatever momentum you have going forward. People were shamed after Prop 8 passed. Even the gay community with its lackluster turn out and low profile. But who should really be ashamed are the people of Equality California, who after taking 8 months to watch the "No on 8" campaign squander record breaking silos of cash on everday soap box commercials without any depth or usable content whatsoever, or a yard sign in a "No on 8" campaign office in a 20 mile radius, they will sit back and do the same for the next four fucking years. So go ahead EQUALITY CAlifornia. Give us another disappointing November 5th.

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