PonderEthereal

There was no one or nothing in the dream that was familiar to my waking life. I was homeless, I think. Most people were, actually. There did seem to be the remnants of war… a militant outlook on life. I was taking care of a baby that wasn’t mine. I realized with rousing horror that it was now legal for anyone to ask you personal questions before deciding what services or goods to offer you. It was now possible to be denied housing, food or access to anything based upon your personal preferences and attributes.

It was legal because of some sort of unilateral decision made by the president in this ‘very different political time’. It was a decision made for the ’safety of the people’. Somehow, we, the people, went right along with questionable step after horrible decision based upon obviously bullshit rhetoric that we swallowed because it was a small step, just insignifigant and really couldn’t… wouldn’t be the end of our rights! PSHA! Up until it was too late to stop it and we found ourselves in this hellish lack of society.

I remember, in the dream, being beyond afraid. I was absolutely mortally frightened that I might not ‘qualify’ for the things I needed anymore because of who I was. The prospect of ANYONE being ALLOWED to ask such questions as ‘are you gay or straight’ before offering me the ability to purchase food.

In my waking state, now, I find it difficult to re-illicit the horror I felt in the dream at knowing this new possibility was now a reality. It’s not my reality now and I know that… so it’s tough to step into a place where I can fool myself into really being immersed in the possibility. But in the dream… it WAS the reality and the fear of it ran straight through to my core. The fear of feeling like my very basic needs and rights as a human were going to be denied me by a group of ‘my peers’ who were somehow ‘ok’ enough to get away with denying me those things.

Vote no on prop 8. Maybe you aren’t gay. Maybe you don’t agree with being gay. That’s ok and it isn’t the whole of the issue. Where have we gone as a people that we could even entertain the notion of creating a law to deny someone a really basic right of pursuit of happiness based upon their sexual orientation? If you would not consider passing the same law to limit another group from being married… white people, black people, physically handicapped people, you have to see that although perhaps more emotionally charged, right now, in this generation, ‘gay people’ are people just like those other groups in that they are different from you - and should not be discriminated against JUST upon the basis of their ‘group’.

Besides. I’m giving up on men, I think.