Stop making generalizations. 53% is not an overwhelming number, and at best shows tepid support for Prop 8.

47% of Latinos voted against the measure. You need to start looking at people as individuals and not as one unit. And stop creating a false construct of gays versus minorities. Newsflash: there are non-white gay people.

In fact, that blindness is what helped doom the No on 8 campaign. If you want to win an election in CA, you have to target everybody and treat everybody as mainstream. Because in CA everybody is mainstream. You can’t ignore Latinos or treat them as The Other and still expect to win. The Yes on 8 campaign understood that and ran ads in English and in Spanish and did not make ethnicity an issue.

This is what religions do to people. They allow other people to manipulate you to further their own agenda. Whatever happened to the separation of church and state? There is no such thing in this country. What we have is tantamount to a theocracy. People have a right to believe whatever they want, until it infringes on the personal rights of others and that is exactly what Christianity and Catholicism do to gays.

How dare Catholics vote againsts rights for gays when their religion has become the butt of jokes for the pedophile priests they protected for decades? And black people have plenty of gay people in our community too, many of whom are on the down low and still in the closet because they are afraid of losing friends and family support.

It is the height of hypocrisy for anyone to tell other people how to lead their lives, whether it’s being pro-life or anti-gay. None of us has a right to moralize when we have all fallen so short of perfection and human harmony. These religions were forced on blacks and Latinos by Europeans and we should patently reject them and revisit our own culture and heritage before our minds, and many times our bodies, were enslaved for white profit. No one can awaken you but you.