Why Prop 8 Remains a Critical Issue for LGBT's
by: MauraHennessey
Thu Dec 11, 2008 at 09:47:06 AM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=45EA39D28643F3C597C2A3044283F78D?diaryId=8583

(And here's view with a different take from the earlier diary, "It's time to move beyond Prop. 8." - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

California was a showdown between two national movements, the Christian Right and the LGBT's. As such, it has huge symbolic significance, particularly since the Chirstian Right, for the first time since they worked in the South to establish Jim Crow laws, was devoting its resources to removing an existing Constitutional right and thereby relegating a minority to Second Class Status.

Prop 8 is our Alamo, our Pearl Harbor, our "Remember the Maine." It is the unconscionable affront, the dastardly act by a "hate-filled, notorious, unprincipled foe." It made Election Day '08 our Day of Infamy. It is our equivalent of the violation of Belgium in World War One, with the Constitution of California and the decisions of the California Supreme Court reduced, like the Guarantee of Beligum Neutrality, reduced to a "scrap of paper," a phrase of historical infamy.