The National Organization for Marriage does not know what to do with themselves as the movement towards equal marriage rights for all continues to make progress. They seem to think it is impinging on their personal freedom to allow gays and lesbians to marry! Their freedom??? When checking my email today, I received a link to a commercial, sponsored by the N.O.M. (i.e. the religious right), called "The Gathering Storm." Apparently California currently broadcasts the commercial up to 8 times a day! What I find most humorous, is their nickname, the Rainbow Coalition. The rainbow has become a positive symbol for GLBTQ members everywhere. Perhaps these bigoted, right wing bastards used the rainbow symbolism on purpose. Regardless, very creative. NOT. Anyway, I personally think these people are absolute parodies of themselves.
And for our more open-minded enjoyment with which to soften the blow, "Prop 8-The Musical":
Keep the spirit alive! Don't let the backlash against progress fool you!
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The posters of the video on Youtube had to disable comments, probably because of overwhelmingly negative responses. The video's been rated one star, instead.
ReplyDeleteThe religious right just doesn't know what to do with themselves right now. And it's only going to become more so as the younger generations, which are only increasingly accepting of this, become voters and politicians and lobbyists. Too many people sympathize with the cause for this to go away.
Now, if only the gay rights movement would repay some of what it owes to the feminist movement. Not that they aren't related to each other anyway and that the thus far partial success of gay rights doesn't also help feminism, but there needs to be a greater push within the gay community for equality for all... including antidiscrimination laws for sexual orientation and equal gender pay (to say the LEAST). The necessity of unification between the progressive groups is becoming increasingly obvious to me.
Indeed, coalitions need to form across all human rights organizations. It's so easy for us to focus on whatever aspect of ourselves oppression applies to and forget the rest. I wouldn't consider it a debt to repay by the GLBTQ rights movement though, just an eye opening situation in our midst.
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