The Fires of Prop 8 Rage On to Warm Rove's Fuzzy

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

If you're Karl Rove, you're cringing. In his Neo-Nazi-Conservative Jerry Lawler Christian America, the hippie notion of equality about as credulous as a free market in practice. If Rove could revise this part of history, he might link Jefferson with marijuana and promote a new philosophy: "All Men Are Created Equal. Unless They Aren't."

This election year was momentous for two reasons. First, Barack Obama became the first biracial man to become President of the United States of America. Second, the most expensive proposition campaign in California history - Prop 8 to ban gay marriage - was voted into law. This action reinforces that all men are not created equal, nor are all women, nor are all persons.

A sad side note seems to be that socially conservative black men may have pushed this vote from fringe proposition into law. These are the men for whom Civil Rights is a central issue in America. These are the men, for whom a racist, President Harry S. Truman, overcame the faulty fundamentals of his upbringing to champion a Civil Rights agenda.

Truman's fundamental wrong was, for him, self-evident: How do we lead the world and champion democracy and freedom, when we reward our black heroes who fought to win WWII are with the promise of inequality and secregation. The details in the struggles of blacks, or gays, or Jews, or Muslims may well be different. The fundamentally wrong intentions and motives of those powerful few who initiate such un-American legislation remains the same. These, my friends, are the politics of white supremacy. They remain alive and well.

Instead of white sheets, the Roves and Coulters and Limbaughs mask themselves with a false sense of patriotism and a contrivance of religion. Instead of torches, they use their words.

They appeal to and exploit precisely those ideals that Americans hold so dear: a distinctly American love of country and the hope that there is a reward for this struggle called life.

If you're with them, you are a patriot with a sweet place in Heaven. If you aren't, you're a terrorist going to hell.

This quartet of lynchpins and their respective Armies in politics, the media, and Big Business might be rendered irrational if they weren't getting so rich. To the misfortune of so many, greed is rational. But it benefits so few.

The few it benfits, however, are strong. YES ON PROPOSITION 8 is the fuel that may stoke the fire of Karl Rove's war. Shortly after John McCain conceded, Karl Rove went on Fox News to analyze the failed campaign that he ran. He quickly diverted the discourse to the battles that were won on the gay marriage front. In four years, as Obama's sharp decisions leave Americans content, gay marriage just may be contentious enough for a Rove campaign of slander and divisiveness. It is one of those issues, like gun control, abortion, and stem cell research, that has been made an issue to draw yourself from the core functions of our government: security, economy, health care, and education.

The passage of Proposotion 8 is unconstitutional, un-American, and wrong. The personal nature for those on one side of the issue has intensified the battle. This likely shocks those who were disaffected on the other. Outcry from leaders and angry civilian demonstrations are, perhaps, foregone conclusions. And Rove's diabolical madness may well look like genius again in four years.

How do we do our part to divert the disaster of the Presidential Bride of Rovenstein? For most the answer is simply keep the faith. The war on white supremacy, like the war on terror, should be fought free from the public eye. Demonstrations are cathartic; but they also exacerbate the problem and strengthen Karl Rove's long running polemic Republican strategy.

Remember, all men are still created equal. According to Jefferson, this idea is self evident. If those for NO ON PROPOSITION 8 can stand back from the fire, we can contain it for those who will work hard to uphold a clear constitutional right. Perhaps, in Obama's America of Change and Unity, everyone can see past the disagreements and move forward on the common grounds of our struggles.

And if there's one thing that is plenty available in this failed economy it's cheap common grounds on which to struggle.

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Saboteurs of Marriage

Ann Coulter: Have you ever noticed that whenever Democrats lose presidential elections, they always blame it on the personal qualities of their candidate? Kerry was a dork, Gore was a stiff, Dukakis was a bloodless android, Mondale was a sad sack.

This blame-the-messenger thesis allows Democrats to conclude that their message was fine -- nothing should be changed! The American people are clamoring for higher taxes, big government, a defeatist foreign policy, gay marriage, the whole magilla. It was just this particular candidate's personality.

Bill O'Reilly: Traditionally, Americans have rejected that kind of nanny state, but make no mistake, that is what the far left sees as "economic justice."And then there are "San Francisco values."

That is the George Soros vision of legalized narcotics and prostitution, unfettered abortion rights, legalized euthanasia, and gay marriage, to name just a few social issues. Soros, a big time contributor to MoveOn, believes America should be a libertine society where moral judgments about social behavior are unacceptable.

So, where will Barack Obama be on those issues? He says he personally opposes gay marriage, but I can't imagine him working against it. He's also fine with abortion in cases where the health of the mother is an issue. Of course, the health of the mother could be a panic attack or a headache. Based upon his voting record in the past, I expect Obama to be extremely liberal when social legislation is presented to him. I also expect Ruth Bader Ginsburg to have a new best friend if a Supreme Court opening occurs.