I have the right to

I feel the urgency to comment on how people were denied rights this past election.

No matter how subdued I try to be about proposition 8, it upsets me, it belittles my mind with how people can pass a proposition that denies marriage for same sex couples. Why do people feel the need to do so? Less than one hundred years ago women could not vote because of their sex. Were considered second class citizens even though the sacrificed all for their family or a war. Blacks could not marry one another or another "color."

This battle rages on today with gays not being allowed to marry each other. This is in spite of a divorce rate of over 50%, in spite of love being a joke, and in spite of celebrities marrying for 24 hours. What are you to say, "they" cannot love. "They" are worth nothing of my respect as their happiness is not true happiness. That their love isn't truly love? What happened to treat everyone the way you would like to be treated?

I don't understand this vote, and even after a month of trying to understand it I still don't. What is the reason behind it, is it because they'll raise gay babies, or a "child in this type of lifestyle suffers?" All studies say those reasons are false and fiction. I see no harm in this "lifestyle" since you may believe it is a choice. Tell me, leave a comment, how does this harm? There is one thing this proposition is very good at achieving. One grand thing, one spectacular outcome that all should be proud of. This proposition denies love. Denies what we are made of, what we all want. Shameful decisions and I only hope that the courts will overturn this decision.

My father always says to me, day in day out.

"Jackson, whatever may be consuming your heart right now, let it go. Let it be. You need not a thing but love, and remember Jackson: always love."