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Since: 08-20-04
From: California

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Posted on 11-11-08 11:49 PM Link | Quote




Transcript of Keith Olbermann's Special Comment regarding Proposition 8 and Same Sex Marriage:

Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love
Everyone deserves the same chance at permanence and happiness
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Updated 8:13 p.m. CT, Mon., Nov. 10, 2008

Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last
week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of
same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from
coast to coast.

Some parameters, as preface. This isn't about yelling, and this isn't
about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop-8. And I don't
have a personal investment in this: I'm not gay, I had to strain to
think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no
personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice
that still pervades their lives.

And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isn't
about yelling, and this isn't about politics. This is about the human
heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it.

If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the
sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do
not understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a
time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over
here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your
option. They don't want to deny you yours. They don't want to take
anything away from you. They want what you want—a chance to be a
little less alone in the world.

Only now you are saying to them—no. You can't have it on these terms.
Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they don't cause too much
trouble. You'll even give them all the same legal rights—even as
you're taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world
around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying,
no, you can't marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you
couldn't marry?

I keep hearing this term "re-defining" marriage. If this country
hadn't re-defined marriage, black people still couldn't marry white
people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal
in 1967. 1967.

The parents of the President-Elect of the United States couldn't have
married in nearly one third of the states of the country their son
grew up to lead. But it's worse than that. If this country had not
"re-defined" marriage, some black people still couldn't marry black
people. It is one of the most overlooked and cruelest parts of our sad
story of slavery. Marriages were not legally recognized, if the people
were slaves. Since slaves were property, they could not legally be
husband and wife, or mother and child. Their marriage vows were
different: not "Until Death, Do You Part," but "Until Death or
Distance, Do You Part." Marriages among slaves were not legally
recognized.

You know, just like marriages today in California are not legally
recognized, if the people are gay.

And uncountable in our history are the number of men and women, forced
by society into marrying the opposite sex, in sham marriages, or
marriages of convenience, or just marriages of not knowing, centuries
of men and women who have lived their lives in shame and unhappiness,
and who have, through a lie to themselves or others, broken countless
other lives, of spouses and children, all because we said a man
couldn't marry another man, or a woman couldn't marry another woman.
The sanctity of marriage.

How many marriages like that have there been and how on earth do they
increase the "sanctity" of marriage rather than render the term,
meaningless?

What is this, to you? Nobody is asking you to embrace their expression
of love. But don't you, as human beings, have to embrace... that love?
The world is barren enough.

It is stacked against love, and against hope, and against those very
few and precious emotions that enable us to go forward. Your marriage
only stands a 50-50 chance of lasting, no matter how much you feel and
how hard you work.

And here are people overjoyed at the prospect of just that chance, and
that work, just for the hope of having that feeling. With so much
hate in the world, with so much meaningless division, and people
pitted against people for no good reason, this is what your religion
tells you to do? With your experience of life and this world and all
its sadnesses, this is what your conscience tells you to do?

With your knowledge that life, with endless vigor, seems to tilt the
playing field on which we all live, in favor of unhappiness and
hate... this is what your heart tells you to do? You want to sanctify
marriage? You want to honor your God and the universal love you
believe he represents? Then Spread happiness—this tiny, symbolic,
semantical grain of happiness—share it with all those who seek it.
Quote me anything from your religious leader or book of choice telling
you to stand against this. And then tell me how you can believe both
that statement and another statement, another one which reads only "do
unto others as you would have them do unto you."

You are asked now, by your country, and perhaps by your creator, to
stand on one side or another. You are asked now to stand, not on a
question of politics, not on a question of religion, not on a question
of gay or straight. You are asked now to stand, on a question of love.
All you need do is stand, and let the tiny ember of love meet its own
fate.

You don't have to help it, you don't have it applaud it, you don't
have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it.
Because while it may at first look like that love is between two
people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't
even want to know. It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your
fellow person just because this is the only world we have. And the
other guy counts, too.

This is the second time in ten days I find myself concluding by
turning to, of all things, the closing plea for mercy by Clarence
Darrow in a murder trial.

But what he said, fits what is really at the heart of this:
"I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet,
Omar-Khayyam," he told the judge. It appealed to me as the highest
that I can vision. I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the
hearts of all: So I be written in the Book of Love; I do not care
about that Book above. Erase my name, or write it as you will, So I be
written in the Book of Love."

(c) 2008 msnbc.com

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27650743/

As a fellow human being, I urge you all to re-post this where you can, and spread the word far and wide, for this man is no more a person than an intelligent human being, and he has spoken in a manner far more eloquent that which the rest of us are still trying to convey. Together, we shall stand and rise above the ignorance of the few, and usher in an era of a single, unified, human race.
FX

Zombie Marco








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Posted on 11-12-08 12:01 AM Link | Quote
One of Olberman's best speeches (and that's saying something). Unfortunately I doubt many people that voted for Prop 8 watch him.

Regardless, *favorites*.
Stitch

Roy Koopa
Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!








Since: 08-20-04
From: California

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Posted on 11-12-08 07:27 PM Link | Quote
Totally, but not just favorite this, spread it.
Rogue
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Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 11-12-08 09:05 PM Link | Quote
I must say it's quite a speech. And this is the twenty-third place I've seen this posted.

Seriously, for the last two days my LJ f-list was has had it posted on a loop. I don't think there are many places I could spread it too.

Good grief, L.A.'s practically ready to riot again. Especially against some of the local eateries.

El Coyote's manager apparently gave $100 to the YES campaign, they had a press conference today to explain that their opinions are not hers and that people should come back to eat there again. Here's a play-by-play of it: http://laist.com/2008/11/12/el_coyote_restaurant_prop_8_lunch_h.php#more
Elara

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Since: 08-15-04
From: Ferelden

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Posted on 11-14-08 12:39 AM Link | Quote
I honestly think that is one of the most beautiful speeches that I have ever heard. I think it should be aired on prime time or something so that all can see it.
Stitch

Roy Koopa
Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!








Since: 08-20-04
From: California

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Posted on 11-15-08 02:02 AM Link | Quote
There's a protest tomorrow in several cities, but I can't attend since the flu has claimed my ability to leave the house. Ben, his boyfriend, and his friends will be in San Francisco for it. I can't make it, but I will be protesting when I can.
Elara

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Since: 08-15-04
From: Ferelden

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Posted on 11-15-08 05:45 PM Link | Quote
I went to the one in Long Beach, it was cool.
Stitch

Roy Koopa
Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!








Since: 08-20-04
From: California

Since last post: 696 days
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Posted on 11-15-08 06:00 PM Link | Quote
I'm still compiling the video, but we had one a few days before the election day in the rain, that was fun.

Anyway, I altered the sign on my car to read "I Will Not Be A Victim of H8"
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