Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Prop 8 Spokesman in California Compares Gay People To Hitler and his Regime



Regardless of what you think of the GLBT community, do you really think comparing gay people to Hitler and his regime is the best way for Christians in California to go? In my opinion, Prop 8 is a message of hate that is working to promote discrimination towards members of the GLBT community and to continue denying those "inalienable rights" of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" that supposedly everyone in America are afforded.

It's a curious time we live in, I was told the other day when discussing Prop 8 with a someone from high school that gay people aren't discriminated against, and they do have the same right as anyone else to marry someone of the opposite sex. But don't you think it would have been appropriate in the sixties for the same argument to be made about marrying someone of a different race (and even still in some places in the US today)? Homophobia is the last great socially acceptable way to hate someone because of the minority they belong to, and approving Prop 8 will only send the message that the government approves of such hate, and that people are right in discriminating against them.

1 comment:

Michael Aleksander said...

You're very right... racism is on the same level as homophobia, but isn't so much of an issue. How odd...

Also, it is VERY weird comparing homosexuality to Hitler. I don't see a sensible link.
Also, if Hitler is wrong, and he was homophobic... homophobia must therefore be wrong! :)

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