Right On Melissa Etheridge

“Blatantly Hateful" is how Melissa Etheridge describes Prop 8. If you haven't read it yet, click ^..^ and go read what she wrote and the comments. And then come back and read what I have to say. Yes I have more to say. If anyone wants to comment here, I welcome your thoughts on this issue. If you have already blogged about it, then give your link here so that I/we can read it.

First off, no human has the right to tell me who I can love and sex. My life is my own and what I do with it is my business as long as it doesn't infringe on someone elses. The term marriage doesn't need to be redefined. Marriage is simply a joining of people before their family and friends or alone together. People take that step to commit their love to each other.

Jesus was publicly baptisted because it was a way to outwardly show his faith. And to give an example of what we can do to show our belief in God, the Father. Disciples of Jesus (me) do not have to be baptisted (I am), it's just a public display.

There is one word that many people are overlooking and the word is ------
LEGAL. A legal marriage makes it law, and to deny any one group of people their legal rights is ILLEGAL. Is that plain enough. Will they next redefine the word LEGAL? Religion is not suppose to be forced on anyone. God in Heaven said it is our choice to believe in Him or not. So for humans to link marriage and religion means that people who are not religious are committing a religious act. It's the word LEGAL that gives me the right to have all the benefits that heterosexuals have already. Since I can't get LEGALLY married unless I marry a man, then no one should be able to get LEGALLY married. So TAKE AWAY the state and federal benefits that are attached to the word LEGAL. Our officials redefined the word marriage and they act like that is suppose to over-ride the law of the United States Constitution. Under the law, I am not suppose to be discriminated against because of my skin-tone, my heritage, my religion or my sexuality.

My sexuality is just as much a-part of me as my skin tone and my heritage. I can't change it and it is totally wrong to be judged on what I am -- a
homosexual. If I said I didn't want to be Black, then Black people would jump all over me the same way some heterosexuals jump over homosexuality. The reason heterosexuals keep saying that homosexuality is a choice is BECAUSE they wouldn't dare question what GOD has made. And some where, I've heard and read the words -- whom God has joined together, let no man put it asunder. And I seem to recall that we are not to have any God before Him. So I don't have to answer to any man or woman on this sphere.

I just don't understand why some people need to feel like they are better than someone else simply because of skin-tone and sexuality. Neither is a choice for me. And if I had a choice, I don't want or need to change. I don't have to be a man to love a woman and my skin-tone only helps to describe me -- not define me. The words Black homosexual woman do not describe the total me.

(I don't have the equipment to post my picture. It would certainly be an honor to have my pic on this with Melissa Etheridge.)