California's Prop 8: Turns the Clock Backwards. Are We Ready for That?

Michelle KrausPosted October 31, 2008 | 07:53 PM (EST)

If this is successful in California, civil and human rights are no longer safe in this country. This is not just about those liberals in the land of fruit and nuts. This proposition is discriminatory. It has very little to do with the Church, G-d or school children regardless of all the television infomercials. Prop 8 is an insidious attempt to turn back the clock, and not just to daily light savings time this weekend.

Remarkably, the polls are very, very close foreshadowing larger issues at play in this Election. And if that is true, we must stand together and fight these forces of hatred.

Prop 8 removes dignity and respect from an entire sector of our culture, and relegates them to second class citizenship. It harkens to a society that once again tolerates segregation, discrimination, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and class warfare.

This is a time for hope, change and new beginnings. Please step into the future to build a country once again based on equality. Democrats, Republicans, Hollywood, school teachers, Silicon Valley leaders are all unified.

VOTE NO ON PROP 8. It is the only ethical and moral thing to do.