Jimmie Higgins
28th July 2009, 19:37
Edit: this post is actually just a rant posing as a call for action... i'm just pissed that liberals are going to fuck up a left-ward moving upsurge of political anger (protests against prop 8) once again!
The mainstream liberal LGBT groups in california have decided to not try and repeal prop 8 in 2010, but push it back to 2012 (so they can do more fundraising according to them). They are now sending out their minions to convince people this is the correct strategy because Californians are too conservative for gay marriage - what bullshit. This is a serious misreading (possibly willfull misreading) of the mood among young gat rights activists. If these liberal groups get away with their deley, then they will suck the optomism and momentum right out of of it.
On a tactical level, legalizing pot will be on the 2010 ballot (how sad is it that pot will be legal before two people of the same sex can marry?) and so there will be a huge turnout of young voters in 2010 who will no doubt be more pro-marriage equality. Also, in 2012, Obama will be up for reelection and so liberals will be too busy spending money his reelection to support a gay marriage ballot mesure - not to mention they will probably try and convince us that "now is not the right time for this" you might hurt Obama's chances of being re-elected. Liberals disgustingly blamed gay marriage ballot initiatives for John Kerry's defeat:rolleyes:.
So please help me send letters to Marrige Equality and similar groups and if you live in California and you see their money collectors on street corners, shame them! I am normally against making a-political arguments with people, but I think now is an exception and we should shame these liberal groups and throw some Martin Luther King (patron saint of Liberals everywhere... yet they seem to ignore the content of what he says) quotes at them...
To paraphrase MLK: Liberals always tell you to wait, always tell you that now is not the right time to seek justice... but justice deferred is justice denied.
or the real thing:
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
The mainstream liberal LGBT groups in california have decided to not try and repeal prop 8 in 2010, but push it back to 2012 (so they can do more fundraising according to them). They are now sending out their minions to convince people this is the correct strategy because Californians are too conservative for gay marriage - what bullshit. This is a serious misreading (possibly willfull misreading) of the mood among young gat rights activists. If these liberal groups get away with their deley, then they will suck the optomism and momentum right out of of it.
On a tactical level, legalizing pot will be on the 2010 ballot (how sad is it that pot will be legal before two people of the same sex can marry?) and so there will be a huge turnout of young voters in 2010 who will no doubt be more pro-marriage equality. Also, in 2012, Obama will be up for reelection and so liberals will be too busy spending money his reelection to support a gay marriage ballot mesure - not to mention they will probably try and convince us that "now is not the right time for this" you might hurt Obama's chances of being re-elected. Liberals disgustingly blamed gay marriage ballot initiatives for John Kerry's defeat:rolleyes:.
So please help me send letters to Marrige Equality and similar groups and if you live in California and you see their money collectors on street corners, shame them! I am normally against making a-political arguments with people, but I think now is an exception and we should shame these liberal groups and throw some Martin Luther King (patron saint of Liberals everywhere... yet they seem to ignore the content of what he says) quotes at them...
To paraphrase MLK: Liberals always tell you to wait, always tell you that now is not the right time to seek justice... but justice deferred is justice denied.
or the real thing:
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant 'Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.