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Update: I’m adding this here, as it is relevant to our interests.

Many others have already made comments regarding the Anti-Gay Blacklist, which appeared over the webz some time after Prop 8 passed in California. I feel it only necessary to add my two cents.

The Anti-Gay Blacklist

I am about to make some heated accusations. I am not sorry to make them. In the spirit of free speech and the freedom to information, I will speak my mind.

This is in part directed at the people that chose to pour so much money into the campaign in support of Proposition 8. Though I deeply respect the right to opinion and the right to do whatever you want with your money, I have deep disgust for those that choose to use their money and their opinion to further hate and discrimination through politics. I thought that this nation had gone far in its great decision to elect an African-American man for president. Apparently not.

The message on the top of the Anti-Gay Blacklist begs readers not to patronize the people that donated enormous sums to this cause. I know better, and so do they. These people will be targeted and they will be “patronized”. It is a fact of life. Not everyone is going to adhere to a code of honor and leave these people alone. Hearts have been shattered, dreams have been crushed. Lives will forever be altered by this decision. It has hurt so many. It is only natural that they lash out at the beings that so insolently decided that they would brazenly walk into another person’s life and tell them that they couldn’t marry the person of their choice. I would.

I will not, however. They did the dishonorable thing and took away the constitutional rights of a minority group. I would never sink to their level and do the dishonorable thing in patronizing them. I will say, however, that these people had it coming. You cannot put forth your money towards a bill that messes with someone’s RIGHTS and not expect a serious consequence. Do not complain if someone behaves ill towards you when they are raw and hurt from your bigotry. Do not complain.

You have been highlighted as a list of people who are willing to go out of their way to deny someone the right to be recognized by the nation as a first-class citizen. In my opinion, you deserve it. You should have known this was coming. Karma is a bitch. But she’s a classy one.

People like school teachers and secretaries have donated money that I KNOW for a FACT had to have taken months to save up for. And you had to give it to a campaign willing to suppress a human being’s rights! That sort of money could have fed millions of hungry people, or put the clothes on the backs of millions of children. That sort of money could have done so much ACTUAL GOOD in the world. But instead you chose to center your mind on a minority group, playing politics and saintly crying out to your god in prayer that an amendment might pass that denies two people the freedom to marry.

Yes. I think it is fair to say that you deserve whatever is coming your way. We are hurt and outraged and our anger at this blatantly horrible discrimination will not go unheard. You have messed with our civil rights. Prepare for fabulous consequences.