the real crisis

"Love is large, love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love...love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people but all love between all people. How can anyone say one person's love is more sacred than another person's? if indeed it is love it is sanctified. If it is indeed love the right to marriage is not questionable. In my mind nothing pleases God more than love. I do not think it pleases God to codify bigotry. I do not think it pleases God that fear guides the hand of the law in the name of a cultural war."
- Jennifer Beals
4th Annual Power Premiere

first off...this woman is amazing, not only in her acting, but her intellect as well...if it is not obvious reading the above quote from her power up speech (infamous in the the lesbian community).

this part out of the speech means a lot to me, it is as if she took all the stuff in my head and just said it, but eloquently.

We have republicans in office and other closed-minded conservative figures that DARE to put heterosexual love above homosexual. And i honestly believe it is out of fear, fear of the unknown, because when you think about it the only thing we as humans are really afraid of is the unknown. So, to solve the problem, change the unknown to known. instead of automatically marking all gays as corrupt and condemned, get to know them, get to know the culture.

Beals is absolutely right, fear should not play part in the decisions of our law makers, especially when that fear could be so easily diminished, and especially when that fear is based solely on one's own personal ignorance on the culture and people.