One step forward, one step back.
So the excitement of President-Elect Obama has taken a back seat to the extreme disappointment of the passing of proposition eight in California.
I don't want to feel like a second class citizen. I don't want my own rights denied me. But my country still refuses to see the fact that I have rights that everyone else is entitled to.
Recently, it's come to my attention that I live in a bubble. Everyone believes exactly the same thing that I believe. But that's not true of the rest of the world, or even of the place that I live in. I plan on travelling to Argentina soon, and it dawned on me that I need to figure out how accepting they are of homosexuality before I go there, because Beuonos Aires is not Iowa City. It's really hard to have to think about regressing to a state that I lived through before I came here, because maybe that's what I'll have to do if I want to go to another country. Hell, that's probably what I have to do if I ever want to visit a lot of places in the United States.
I want to be able to be myself. I want to be able to be accepted wherever I go without having to cover anything up. But when a state that is supposed to be the most liberal bans gay marriage after they have accepted it for half a year, I just don't know what is acceptable anymore. I don't know if I can be myself outside of my own university liberal bubble.
And that hurts. We have so far to go, and just because there is a President Obama, doesn't mean that the U.S.A. has made any progress what so ever. So far as long as we allow anyone to be second class citizens, there is very little to be excited about.
This is my life. MY LIFE. And as long as the religious right exists as a influential force in american politics, maybe I need to start standing up for it, and for my rights.
I don't want to feel like a second class citizen. I don't want my own rights denied me. But my country still refuses to see the fact that I have rights that everyone else is entitled to.
Recently, it's come to my attention that I live in a bubble. Everyone believes exactly the same thing that I believe. But that's not true of the rest of the world, or even of the place that I live in. I plan on travelling to Argentina soon, and it dawned on me that I need to figure out how accepting they are of homosexuality before I go there, because Beuonos Aires is not Iowa City. It's really hard to have to think about regressing to a state that I lived through before I came here, because maybe that's what I'll have to do if I want to go to another country. Hell, that's probably what I have to do if I ever want to visit a lot of places in the United States.
I want to be able to be myself. I want to be able to be accepted wherever I go without having to cover anything up. But when a state that is supposed to be the most liberal bans gay marriage after they have accepted it for half a year, I just don't know what is acceptable anymore. I don't know if I can be myself outside of my own university liberal bubble.
And that hurts. We have so far to go, and just because there is a President Obama, doesn't mean that the U.S.A. has made any progress what so ever. So far as long as we allow anyone to be second class citizens, there is very little to be excited about.
This is my life. MY LIFE. And as long as the religious right exists as a influential force in american politics, maybe I need to start standing up for it, and for my rights.