Protest for Civil Rights!
We will overturn Prop 8: it's wrong, unAmerican, bigoted, and unfair!
Tonight (Saturday, Nov 8th.) at 6pm, Sunset Junction in Silverlake.
Mapquest it, and get there early to find parking.

Feel free to copy and paste the info below.....
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another hetero for equality!
tomorrow at 6pm
sunset junction, silver lake
protest for same-sex marriage
its bigotry, its prejudice and its a civil rights issue
so be there or be square.
www. answerla. org



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Prejudice:
1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4. such attitudes considered collectively: The war against prejudice is never-ending.
5. damage or injury; detriment: a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.
–verb (used with object) 6. to affect with a prejudice, either favorable or unfavorable: His honesty and sincerity prejudiced us in his favor.
—Idiom7. without prejudice, Law. without dismissing, damaging, or otherwise affecting a legal interest or demand.

Bigotry:
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.

Civil Rights:
1. rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts, esp. as applied to an individual or a minority group.
2. the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks.

Protest at 6pm, Sunset Junction, Silverlake [over in the Hollywood area, mapquest it.]


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The voters of California, by supporting prop 8 are blatantly:

-Saying that homosexuals are so fundamentally flawed at birth that they are below, and not entitled to, the human civil rights we have here in America. This is bigotry.


-By saying that they do not believe that homosexuals, individuals who were born a certain way, are entitled to the same rights as the "rest" of us Americans, they are openly upholding prejudice.

-They are claiming to support "gay rights," but insist that they are "different rights." This is the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine that kept us in the trenches of racism for far too long.

-Many are claiming that by legalizing gay marriage, we would be "taking away their religious freedoms." Recognizing gay marriage would in no way impact their religious rights: they are still legally allowed to get married, Mormon, Christian, Catholic, or not.

-the Mormon church, who raised millions of dollars for the yes on 8 campaign, did not recognize and accept African Americans into their church until 1978. They were also founded on the belief in polygamy, or more specifically, several wives to every husband.
Ironic much?

-Convicted serial killers, rapists, and other felons are still given the right to marry. While just about every other right pertaining to their lifestyles is stripped, this state and nation still recognizes their right to marry.
And they CHOSE to be criminals!

-We don't get to vote on the church. We dont get to vote on who does and does not get to get married. To do this, it would be destroying the fundamentals of the consitution: we all have the right to express our religion, belief, faith, or creed. We are all protected in our abilities to be and express our ethnicity, nationality, background, whatever.

This country has always held close the belief in a separation of church and state, in order to protect religious freedoms, as well as civil freedoms and rights.

This is a matter of civil rights. Whether or not you believe that people are born gay, whether or not two guys kissing "grosses you out," whether or not you think they would be "bad parents," it is an American obligation to protect the freedoms we all are entitled to.

Protest tomorrow, Saturday, at 6pm. Sunset junction, Silverlake.
More info available at answerla. org



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Martin Luther King Jr. was born black.
Harvey Milk was born gay.

Can you imagine if you were a citizen, born here in America, and you were told you did not "qualify" for basic American rights?
Let's say because you were born a certain color, a certain shape, with a certain voice or hair color or disability or talent, that you were not allowed to get married.

---How would it feel if I objected to you spending your life with the person you love?
---What would it be like if I said that because you were born that way, I couldn't trust you to raise children?
---What would you say if you couldn't visit the love of your life, who you had spent 25 years with in a sacred, committed relationship, in the hospital after a serious accident, because visitation was for "family" only?

Belonging to a church is a choice. Getting married is a choice.
But having civil rights is a fact of being American; we are all entitled to civil rights.

Separate but equal is not equal.

This country has always held close the belief in a separation of church and state, in order to protect religious freedoms, as well as civil freedoms and rights.


Protest, tomorrow at 6pm, Sunset Junction in Silverlake.
answerla. org for more info.