Giving Props, and Battling Them

.....Proposition 8 in California. Amendment 2 in Florida. Et cetera. Et cetera. Why is equality so hard?

.....Because it's not enough for the revolution to start. It has to finish. The government, and the churches, and your neighbors, need to be told, over and over and over, that discrimination is illegal, especially if it's based on religion. Instant unconstitutionality. And if you can change the very basics of our constitution, does it really mean anything anyway? Can you really write "they have no rights" on a document that came from the men who wrote "all men are created equal" and not expect to eventually get your ass kicked?

.....You don't see them amending the Bible every few years so their favorite sins can find a loophole. Why not? Because if they really believed the Bible it would matter more to them. If they really believed marriage was sacred, divorce would be illegal. If they really believed what Jesus said, they'd be giving money away instead of finding new ways to steal it, because it's easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of Heaven. That wasn't an op-ed piece in the New York Times. That came from Jesus directly, if you believe in the Bible at all. The one they're supposed to worship, ya know? Bullshit. They're not Christians, stop treating them like they are. They're opportunists, trying to compensate for their lack of a life by controlling someone else's. They're Nero, fiddling while Rome burns. They are spiritual terrorists.

.....And speaking of opportunists, how about jumping on your so-called advocates who have strangely stopped squawking for the most part and done their best to blend in? Ellen DeGeneres was plenty vocal until she got her own talk show and a gazillion dollars. How many mansions, Ms. D? Not as many as John McCain, mind you, but she's getting there. We call it the Rosie O'Donnell syndrome. We'll make you famous if you shut up. There. Done. And if you start talking again, we'll cancel you. Hence Ellen's reduced activism-to-dancing ratio. If Jesus does come back he'll have a few words to say to Ellen about selling out. And if Matthew Shepard ever comes back, he'll really fuck her up.

.....Our new President-Elect, you know, the one who's supposed to save America? I voted for him, but he doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the revolution. He says we're not "red states" and "blue states" but United States! Yeah! And, uh, then he says gay marriage, a right for gay Americans in all those United States, should be decided on a state-by-state basis? What happened to that "united" part? Is this Don't Ask, Don't Wed? Demand more.

.....Wanna get equal rights quickly? Let's play their way. Let's cut out pictures of gay porn and mail them to your neighbors weekly until they let us alone. Let's look in their windows, film them and post it on YouTube. If my sex life is their business...theirs is mine. And let's keep a running total of all their sins, so when they get righteous on our asses we can go ballistic on theirs.

.....So, all you pissed-off gays out there, keep the revolution going. Skip a party and go to a rally. Put the drink down and pick up a sign. If you really, really want equal rights, you can't just get ticked off for a few weeks when the assholes that think they control the world tell you you don't matter, and then go back to partying like nothing happened. As RuPaul says, "you better work". And don't stop until you're done.

.....If you voted against Prop 8 or Amendment 2, you're not done.