Hindsight is 20/20 vision; therefore, foresight must be less than that. Someone once said that if you don’t know history, you are doomed to repeat it. If we look back over time, history shows us many mistakes we have made in our course of evolution. For instance: the holocaust and the civil rights movement. If you had a chance to go back in time, would you follow the path of least resistance, or would you have stood up to the status quo.
The 14th amendment clearly states, “No State shall not make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
In a CNN Politics article at www.poltical ticker.blog.cnn.com by Rebecca Stewart, Perry was quoted saying, “It’s fine with me that a state is using their sovereign rights to decide an issue. Obviously gay marriage is not fine with me. My stance hasn’t changed.” This statement by Perry clearly shows that he is totally willing to disregard the 14th amendment and separation of church and state to further his personal views. Just as in the past the Austrian charismatically took Germany’s pain and created the holocaust or angry mobs burned black churches in the south because African-Americans wanted to vote; today law makers use loop holes to prolong the rights of some Americans. Today it is not a skin color, it is a sexual preference.
It is easy to say what you would have done to stop the atrocities had you been there. Just as it is easy to say oh that doesn’t concern me. It is easy to follow the path of least resistance, but easy is not always good. Today it is time for us to stand up to the status quo. It is time to stop the abuse of office, the injustice, and the inequality. It is time for us to demand the rights of all Americans.
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