Today I am not proud to be a Texan. Today I am deeply disappointed in approximately 75.5% of the voters in my home state. Today I am bewildered, confused and saddened. See, I don’t know what happened to the occasionally difficult but always decent frontier mentality of my people. My people, the ones I grew up with, always understood that what other people do in their own homes, on their own time, means nothing you. My people understood that you watched each others’ backs and looked out for your neighbor; my people did not turn their backs on their neighbors just because of who they were. My people understood that we were all in this together, goddamnit.
But my people are a dying breed. Real Texans have been replaced with blustering false christians who will stop at nothing (even voting for a ridiculous constitutional amendment that was supported by the goddamned Ku Klux Klan, for christ’s sake!) to try to enforce their own sad morality on everyone and everything in sight. And that makes me sick. These people, who will fart and belch and tell you that they are the real Texans, disgust me. They stand for nothing that Texas stands for. The name “Texas” is derived from the Caddo Indian word teysha, which means “hello friend.” Or at least it used to. Now it seems that it means “vote stupidly and with hate in your heart.” Leave it to the white man to speak with a forked goddamned tongue.
In all of this horribleness, though, there’s a ray of hope. We can make a change next November. We can leave governor goodhair and his social conservative fascist hordes behind. We can leave them with this godawful, unforgivable legacy – this permanent* stain on our state’s history – and move on. We can show them, and the false Texans in DC just what we think of them by voting for a fine Jewish cowboy by the name of Friedman. More on that in the future, I promise.
So those of you in other states whose constitutions make sense and are hard to amend can relax just a little. Getting this abomination out of the Texas constitution won’t be the kind of monumental task that it would be elsewhere. It’s not easy, mind you, but it can be done more readily than it could be, say, if this were the US constitution. Of course, these hate-filled falsechristmongers have their eyes on that, too…
patita | 11-Nov-05 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
The saddest response to this that I have heard is from another Texan, happy that even 25% of people in his native state voted not to eliminate his rights. So Prop 2 will become Section 32 in the Texas Constitution Article 1, far under Section 3a: Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative. (Added Nov. 7, 1972.)