Today, the State of Texas votes on Proposition 2. This is a constitutional amendment that declares, officially, that the marital union may only exist between one man and one woman. I think more than a few Queer men and women fail to understand what this means. This is not a simple prohibtion, or an assertion of a necessary moral principle that maintains the fabric of our society. This amendment is nothing less than a proclamation by the government that we have entrusted with our livelihood that our way of life, our way of loving, is an abomination. The most profound and life-changing emotion a human being can feel is love, and your government is saying that one of the things that makes life worth living is a perversion of nature. We can look back and see the hatred with which the US Government attacked Black America over the past 200 years, but now we find a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT being passed that is a DIRECT attack on Queer America. If the black man had to fight so hard for equality, then imagine how far we have left to go. So, let it begin. Let men and women who feel the oppressive burden of a heterosexually dominated society across this nation stand up and FIGHT for those basic human rights to which all people are guaranteed. Until we rise as a people and declare that we will no longer stand this open and flagrant violation of our human rights then it will continue on and on until we recede back into an age where the Queer American is not only afraid to be proud of who he is, and to me there is no greater abomination to a free and democratic society than making an individual in ANY WAY ashamed of his individuality.