I just read a news article where President Bush said:

"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we've got lawyers looking at the best way to do that."

What President Bush should be interpreted as the following by gay men and women.

"You do not deserve the same rights as other American citizens. You do not deserve to have a family. You do not deserve to visit each other if your loved one is sick. You do not deserve acceptance. You do not deserve equality.

I am doing everything I can to enact legislation to ensure that the above beliefs are law."

There has for a long time been this complacency in gay culture where we simply bumble about with our political beliefs, taking no unified effort to force the government and society to recognize our rights as American citizens and human beings. Instead we have fallen into a stereotype of happy, fashionable clowns that care less about our legal rights than we do about our shoes.

The truth is you- not me, not him, not her- if YOU do not take action now, then there is no guarantee that tomorrow you'll be as free as you are today. Or that tomorrow you'll have any rights of today. And if you do take action now, I guarantee that you will have MORE rights than you do today. There is no substitute for personal involvement in the political process that has become front page material for the entire nation to consider. The time is now for us to change who we are in America.

We are not second class citizens. We are not immoral. We are not sacrilege. We are Americans, and we deserve social justice now.