Comments on: Gay rights rallies nationwide over Calif. ban

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:16:08 +0000

It is amazing that losing the battle for Prop 8 in California has awakend a sleeping giant! Not just California gay rights, not just American gay rights, but World Wide Gay Rights! During this past weekend, gays, straights, black and white people all stood up to say NO to bigotry, YES to civil rights for all! This civil rights movement has moved from gay pride and gay bars and into the streets. Hello, World! Guess what? We are kicking this movement into high gear. This is America! We get the SAME rights YOU get (just delayed is all). Thanks for the inspiration from all of you who oppose true civil rights!

By: John S

John S — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:10:19 +0000

We must continue to keep up the good fight.

Soon it may be to cold to demonstrate and the momentum might be lost. Be provocative and by all means make sure you stay in the headlines.

Keeping the presses attention is like herding cats, their always looking for something new and controversial.

Is anyone hanging huge banners over freeway overpasses? Think how many people would see it that never are near a demonstration.

We must keep this in the minds of the public every where.

We must never look back….EVER

By: Asanka Namal Hapuarachchi

Asanka Namal Hapuarachchi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:09:33 +0000

I think it’s not wrong that is them will & them right,so others should give chance for it. The Government shuold imposs leagal act for it.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:04:07 +0000

The AP mentioned the few San Fran demonstrators who targeted religions but failed to mention the keynote speaker: Martin Luther King Jr’s student, Reverend Amos Brown who is a Baptist minister and spoke about not being a bigot. Another speaker, a queer palestinian mother spoke about queer liberation. The media seeks to divide us.

By: richard

richard — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:36:30 +0000

I was against prop 8 but it might just be the best thing that ever happened that it passed now our fight has gone nation wide a rep from new york was on tv and said that this needs to go to the fed level maybe just maybe we can get the us supreme court to take a stand for us now

By: AlexH

AlexH — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:56:59 +0000

I attended the rally and march in Los Angeles, California and it was really something! There was a different feeling in the crowd, as we came together, than say a gay pride event and there were many straight people who walked proudly with us on Saturday.

But what really struck me was after the event had finished. Since we were near Chinatown, me and my friends decided to get dim sum. In the restaurant a young guy who was eating with his family came up to us and asked about the rally and how it went saying he was supposed to go but missed it cause he was in the hospital the night before visiting a friend who was in a serious accident. I think he was straight, but either way he supported us.

On the way back to the subway, still carrying our big signs of equality, not holding them up, just carrying them, an old Chinese man who was a store owner saw our signs and smiled saying “No On 8.”

The crowd was gone but people in cars still noticed the signs and would honk and cheer as the three of us went by.

An SUV full of pretty black girls started honking and cheering when they saw our signs, smiling and screaming, “Yeah! We are with you!”

When we finally got off at the Hollywood & Highland station and walking to the car a young lady came up to me and asked where the protest was because her and her friends wanted to join. I told them that it was over and she was disappointed. Another lady, with a young son who was trying to run away from her, saw our signs and said, “Good for you! I support you guys.”

It was at that point that it really dawned on me that even though Prop 8 passed, we in the LGBT community are not going into this fight alone. And that made me happy.

By: Mike J

Mike J — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:05:21 +0000

I really wanted to attend the rally held in Ottawa, Canada because I strongly believe that only gay marriage rights are good enough and the Americans helped us get gay marriage rights so we should help them when we can, however, I had made a previous commitment that I could not get out of. My heart and my thoughts were with the protestors and still are. It is hard having to relive all the hateful bigoted lies we had to live through when we fought for gay marriage rights here in Canada, but, we did, finally, win and if our friends down south keep fighting they will win too. As Alex Munter (the head of the organization called “Canadians for Equal Marriage”) said once “We will win because we have truth on our side” and we do have truth on our side because equality is a truth and anything else but gay marriage rights is not equal. Fight on California, fight on American, fight the bigots who hide behind religion to legitimize or rationalize their hate because you are fighting for truth and justice and nothing less.

By: francina

francina — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:27:05 +0000

So what! I live in California too. I am straight but I don’t hate. History proves that the majority rule does not automatically mean that they used good sound judgment. That is why we have the constitution. Mob mentality will never be allowed to rule in a democracy.When the needs of a minority are intolerably and unreasonably ignored and thwarted there is a tyranny of the majority. The constitution protects against this. So we will march on for justice. It is the only way to ensure liberty and justice for all. i know we stand a very good chance to win, History indicates that also. from your comment it appears to me you were not aware of that. an educated mind would know this.

By: Robert Rowley, Tucson, Arizona

Robert Rowley, Tucson, Arizona — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:08:12 +0000

Martin, it is YOU, your churches and your Rupublican rabble who are the deviants. We will not stop till we have the full rights as everyone else. Period. If we have to sue the hell out of the IRS to force them to do their job and end the tax exemption for the religions then so be it. If we have to boycott every last anti gay and prop 8 supporter and their businesses till they go broke then so be it. You “sir” and your self ending Republicans and other related trash, thankfully, are coming to an end.

By: Robert Rowley, Tucson, Arizona

Robert Rowley, Tucson, Arizona — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:02:30 +0000

The Mormon Church openly and heavily donated to and campaigned for Prop. 8. According to IRS 501 c (3) they cannot do this and have a tax exempt religious status. Why isn’t the IRS going after them or someone filing suit against the IRS for refusing to do their legal duty?