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It's always good to side with the KKK.

Yes, that is sarcasm.

Today in Texas the people will vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage-Prop 2.

Yesterday, ten men and four women calling themselves members of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan gathered at City Hall plaza Saturday for a brief and hugely contested rally against gay marriage.

The Klan was opposed by what police estimated to be 3,000 demonstrators. Nearly 200 Austin police officers in riot gear allowed them no closer than 50 yards from the Klan at the plaza on Cesar Chavez Street. Am I the only one who finds it strange that they had this march on a street named after Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader?

Police Chief Stan Knee said surrounding streets were blocked to create "safety zones" to "allow us to maintain control," a strategy he said was successful. Two helicopters, one from the Austin Police Department and the other from the Texas Department of Public Safety, circled above.

[...]

Former state Rep. Glen Maxey, who is gay, spoke to what police estimated to be 2,000 peaceful anti-amendment demonstrators on the South First Street bridge opposite the Klan at the plaza.

"Our role today is to stand against their bigotry, their hate and Proposition 2," Maxey said.

Maxey, campaign director for the group No Nonsense in November, turned his back on the Klan to speak to the bridge demonstrators, who carried signs with messages such as "keep Austin tolerant" and "selectively denying rights is prejudice."

[...]

Am I the only one who finds it strange that the police chief said, "The demonstrations were mainly peaceful, and the community can be very proud of that". Proud of what? The Klan having a hate rally? Spewing hate and filth in the name of God?

Both opponents and backers of Proposition 2 expressed dismay at the Klan's entry into the debate. But as one University of Texas student said of Prop 2: "It's not about marriage. It's about hatred, it's about prejudice, it's about bigotry and it's about discrimination... If it were about marriage, the KKK wouldn't be here."

Texas, the amendment will become law-but you aren't going down without a fight. We are thinking about you today.

Posted by Bryan Harding

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 at 11:39 AM. Want to discuss? Leave a comment below.

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By Blogger Alaska, at 11/16/05, 8:54 PM

I agree with Bryan that the KKK spews filth and hate and bigotry.... but in order to remain a progressive movement we must realize that the very rights we are attempting to secure are accompanied by other rights we wish others sometimes didnt' have... Make the space for public debate in the grand tradition of ideal democracy, the shear audacity and unintelligent nature of their arguments will leave little work for us to do other than focus on the issue. Well written... keep it coming :)    



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