Torn

I'm not sure how to feel right now. I feel this election has really summed America up perfectly. On one hand, euphoria over Obama being elected and a new era of progress beginning in America, on the other hand we have Prop 8 in California being passed with a downright puny margin, and Arkansas went so far to keep evil gays from having any semblance to humanity in their state they even made sure single parents couldn't adopt. As always, America proves to be a country of beauty and embarrassment constantly fighting. We have a mixed race man with new ideas coming into the office, we have people posting how funny it is to say you're going to kill him, we have states deciding gays are still subhuman, and we have people of all sexualities, races, and backgrounds saying 'no that's wrong' and fighting it.

It's amazing how beautifully horrible Democracy is at times. Prop 8 is back in courts, the Arkansas issues are being brought back into debate, the dance continues. This is political life, for six months you can get married and be recognized, then some Mormons of all people call you perverts (You better damn make sure you're marrying five WOMEN and not a MAN, that's just GROSS) and it doesn't matter. Here's what those California Mormons are, they're terrorists. They won by terror tactics, lies, and exploitation of fear. There was nothing at all about the court ruling other then 'Same Sex marriages have the same rights as others'. That was it, no 'force teachers to teach it (as if straight marriage is the keystone of education now?)' no 'punish churches who don't do as we say (as a tip, no one cared about churches, the license was what mattered)' and no mandatory gay marriage. I want to know why these Mormons hated the idea so much, and why the church that until a few decades ago didn't call blacks human is our moral compass now? Did they think a gay gestapo was going to march into their churches in pink jackboots and demand all the males marry males and ladies marry ladies? Maybe they were scared all their 14 year old brides would get corrupted, we can't have that ya know.

Here's the thing, this isn't a faith issue. Shockingly enough we have a separation of church and state, and these bigots can't give any reason other then 'morals' why gay marriage is bad. If this was a real country with separation of church and state these people would be laughed down and told to shut up and stick to their funeral protests.The last number I heard was 51%. 51% decided the lives of 49%. Welcome to America. Arkansas is the great benchmark of what these people want, they want to make sure the church has a grasp on your life, on your morals, and on your way of living. These people are honestly happy to let a kid rot away in an orphanage rather then give him to a gay couple or a single mother. These people think Christ's words were "Love thy neighbor...cept for the fags". These people are why people of real faith can't have nice things, they would see the world burn if it meant the 'ways of good' are enforced. This isn't an issue of Red or Blue, of White or Black, this is a moral issue, are gays human? Do gays deserve the same rights as other humans? THAT is what we should be asking these people, have them outright admit 'no they aren't to me' get these people on camera admitting to them gays are not humans, or, at best, not humans of the same worth. This is what these people feel, make them admit it. And honestly, I can live with anyone else doing this crap, that's the way of life, but Mormons? Really? They're calling us perverts? This is a new low.

An interesting tangent, Gabriel Malor, of the Ace of Spades blog site, a heavy Conservative/Republican site, came out of the closet recently. I don't know much about him, or Ace of Spades, but it seems he was a man of decent respect on the site, I don't know if he had any real 'power' but defiantly a strong fan base. He quietly came out in this simple paragraph on a blog about ALL the California Propositions:

"On Prop 8: I know most of you disagree with me about it. But could we have a moment of silence for those poor fools who were happily married or engaged yesterday and today are finding out that they don't have squat? Prop 8 was much more personal than some silly high-speed train or hospital funding. People are hurting today. And I'm one of them."

This wasn't a dramatic "I'M QUEER AND PROOOOUD HONEY" post, it was a simple Revelation. Now, it seems he has a good amount of die hard fans who simply said 'our sympathies' and such, but...well here's the blog itself there are some real vile things thrown at him for no reason. This man was simply expressing the disgust most of us feel about the fact that CHICKENS are worth more in California then gays are, that a high speed train is more worthy, that EVERYONE but us is worth respect, and he was insulted very cruelly for it. This is 'Compassionate Conservatives' for you.

Now, while that alone is enough for me to want to see some riots, there is plenty to appease my blood lust already. For example, the delicious screams as the Republicans eat themselves alive. This was a shock to them it seemed, this is shaking the very core of them, and this is making them turn on each other. It really shocks me how many people are truly enraged over this. Of course, party disappointment is expected, no Republican would be going "WOO YA WE LOST! IN OUR FACE!" But I have a good friend on a military base telling me how the wife of a soldier was proudly saying how he tore all the family flags up in protest, about people making jokes about taking a shot at Obama after hearing they're on Honor Guard duty for the inauguration. I'm reading news stories about people hanging flags upside down and saying shamelessly to the news 'it's because that nigger got elected'. I wish I could say that racism is over now but there are still plenty of people who just know Obama as 'that nigger' it seems. It's so fascinating, when Bush won in massive controversy in 2000, telling a Republican 'he's not my president' met you with screams of treason and hate. Now most comments on their sites insist that Obama is 'not our president'. Best of all, many business owners and such are PROUD to say how they're screwing over their employees who dared vote Obama, firing, cutting pay, all that. Discrimination is ok when it's by political party, unless someone makes fun of Republicans, then it's a Left wing plot. It's funny how double standards work.

Redstate.com officially began "Operation Leper" on the party, and it's been spreading well among the party. What is this operation? Why it's, as I call it "Operation Cut Off the Nose to Spite the Face". They simply feel everyone who does anything to aid the Democrat majority, said anything bad about Palin and other evil thought crimes, will be simply cut away from the party. No redeeming, no mercy, if you step out of their ideas just once, bam. Sarah Palin is the single best asset Democrats have.This woman flew her plane over the Republican party and shot it like a helpless wolf, and I love it. See, these people CAN'T let go. These people can't accept that 'ok, we picked a dud, let's move on and rebuild the party line' no, they're clinging to Palin like she's the last hope of the party, rather then the last nail in its coffin. So bitter are they they even turn on Fox News, their mouthpiece, and claim THEY were mean to Palin, and should be boycotted. If this was just the bigots and fools on Freerepublic.com I could ignore this, those trolls always feel the GOP is doomed if Democrats do anything. No, this is a big movement under the surface, these people are a rotten wound hidden under rusting armor of the party. These people will kill off the GOP from the inside, they will insure we have a lovely Democrat Dynasty in this country, and I support them fully. Go Palin 2012, maybe get Joe the Plumber as your VP, make sure the party doesn't just go through the natural rise and fall cycle, make sure it implodes in a festering wound, make sure they're good and crippled for a long time with all this infighting and backbiting. I love it, this is almost enough to make me forget most of this country still doesn't think gays are worthy of human rights. You go Redstate, you go Free Republic, you go keep supporting all the people who deface their American flags because that damn darkie won, you keep insisting that anyone who even says a nice thing about Democrats, or a minor bad thing about Palin is a traitor to the party. You go, I'll just sit here with a nice cigar and watch the carnage. This is better then porn.