once again

Once again, a group of Americans must wait wonder and wish as their rights are being debated by politicians. Once again, equal, or equal but separate, or just inequality is being bandied about as if time is not of the essence and rights and freedoms are not being denied. Once again it is down to the whims, bigotry, religious dogma or hate of those who seem to forget the tenants of the Constitution of this nation.

We, as a nation have been through this ‘horse and pony’ show before. We heard from individuals that God made it clear that women were chattel, blacks were subhuman and Gays were disciples of the devil. We as a nation have been told that although no one really was sitting with the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia, somehow they knew that the intention of the Preamble to the Constitution, “…We the People…”, never really meant all of the people of America, just the white male heterosexual Protestant fraternity of people. We as a nation have been reminded that states rights usurp Federal rights, but somehow the Civil War, the Civil Rights Acts were flukes which did indeed out govern the individual states from oppression, slavery and injustice invalidating the hate from the states.

Once again, the LGBT community is urged to thank Republican law makers for doing the right thing, or at least thinking of doing the right thing, prompted to kiss ass of the few Republican law makers who might actually vote as a true Americans would insisting on basic human rights as listed in the Constitution, or sending Tweets or Likes to their social network accounts, idolizing them for even considering a law that would make all Americans equal. Once again the LGBT community is held hostage by a group of people who have stolen from the LGBT community their basic rights. It’s like thanking the thief for returning all the items he/she stole from your home.

Somehow those who swear by the power of God, love to abuse that power and speak with words that permit God to be a bigot, racist, homophobe, and Un-American. The ministers who preached to their congregations quoting chapter and verse from their Bible, stating that women given any rights would destroy the family and God’s plan for his creation, the pastors who insisted after reading a sermon from their Bible that the colored should never mingle with the white as it would destroy Gods plan for purity the whites, the Rabbi’s whose rhetoric from the pulpit stating that Gays are sinners, shameful… somehow all of those people have played a more prominent part in building this nation than the black and white words written in our Constitution stating life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Once again, I as a man who happens to be Jewish, White, a Dad, a Tax payer, a follower of the laws of this nation and oh yeah Gay, must wait as my fate is being debated. Once again, I must hear from the stupid, the angry, the fearful, the uneducated, the dumb, and the hypocrites if people like me who happen to also be Gay can marry. Once again, I must hope that at least some of my fellow Americans in New York State may have the opportunity to legally call the love of their life husband or wife.

And then what… If marriage equality passes in New York and I live in California I still can’t marry. If marriage equality does not pass in New York where will be the next state battleground that I will be urged to brown nose a bunch of legislators to maybe, hopefully, please give me my freedoms as an American. And those of us in the LGBT community who have loved their partners for decades, those who have come upon a new love of their life, those who have begun to raise a family, how much longer do we have to wait for something so basic to American values as equality?

How small we seem to be in this big country of ours when we deny fair, equal freedom and rights to anyone of our citizens. When will the true American be tall, brave enough to intervene and end this hate? Once again, I have to wait for someone else to give me back my rights.