1. STOP BLAMING BLACKS, you fucking pricks.
Blacks are only 6.2% of the California population. Considering the degree to which blacks in California are disenfranchised (primarily through being disproportionately locked up in California’s concentration camp prison system), THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY BLACKS WERE A LARGE ENOUGH PORTION OF THE ELECTORATE TO EITHER PASS OR NOT PASS PROP 8. Go read this by-the-numbers analysis, and then let’s move on to the next point:

2. What the FUCK is with going after blacks when way more Latinos and Asians voted for Prop 8? Hey, waita second, what the FUCK is with going after people of color when way more white people voted for Prop 8 than members of any of those groups? In other words, what the fuck is the point of racializing homophobia? White people started that shit. Prop 8 is the result of a problem with white people.

3. Do you want to get at the “common denominator” of homophobia and Prop 8? Then look at fucking religion. You may recall our post about Dealing with Christian Privilege - well, now’s the time to take a stand: Religious assholes no longer get a free pass to be shithead jackoff scumwads just because doing so is part of their pious little practice. Fundies, Mormons, Catholic fundies, the Jerry Falwell types - hey, guess what, THEY’RE THE PROBLEM. Instead of asking why so many black people are homophobic, let’s ask why so many white people are homophobic. Or, as Crooks and Liars put it:

Sorry, LDS and Catholic Churches, let me pull out my tiny violin for you. You have used the tenets of your faith to infringe upon my secular government to take away rights from people, and I’m supposed to feel bad that protests are targeting you?

Don’t take the bait. Bourgeois liberals seem to be in a contest to out-pacify, out-irrelevant, and out-do-nothing each other: “We’ll just stand reaaaaally still, see, and not say a word, and somehow this will magically teach the people who are hellbent on erasing the few civil liberties we have left that it’s really all about love.” Yeah, uh, y’know what? That didn’t work so great for eight fucking years of Bush and war, did it? Oh, and y’know what else? It’s too bad if your Catholic grandmother’s feelings are hurt for a couple days. THERE ARE PEOPLE BEING RELEGATED TO SECOND CLASS STATUS HERE. If you use a church to organize and fund a nation-wide campaign on a ballot initiative, guess what? You get called on it. And if that same church has a history of racism and abusing women and electrocuting gay kids, guess what? You’re really gonna get called on it. That’s not hate. That’s following the money and the volunteer hours.

The problem is really no different in black churches. Jesse Jackson - whoa, man - has some serious issues. But let’s not be stupid. Just as there are queer Mormons (now if that isn’t a shitty way to exist, I don’t know what is), there are queer blacks. Oooh, shocking. If you’re not an idiot, you already knew this, because teh gay, it is everywhere. Whatever the historical reasons for condemning gay love - oppression, criminalizing of sexuality in general - the single most powerful institution working to maintain homophobia today in America is the Christian church.

Let’s repeat that for the slow kids:

The single most powerful institution working to maintain homophobia today in America is the Christian church.

And we really don’t want to hear “some Christians are gay! Some Christians aren’t homophobic!” Yeah, uh, no shit. Go back and work on your Christian privilege right here. That’s not the issue. The problem is that so many Christians and non-fuckwitted types continue to give the hate campaigns a free pass to organize and teach homophobic bullshit in your own backyard just because it’s religion - ALL WITHOUT PAYING TAXES. It’s the state sanctioning religiously-motivated discrimination. Fuck that. I’m done allowing that. Aren’t you?

Links:
Affirmation.org: Gay and Lesbian Mormons

Mormons Stole Our Rights

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