I believe in rights for all people and all living things. If you’re like most Oregonians, and Americans, you wouldn’t agree with me, so let me try to persuade you. Nobody in their right mind would lock their dog up in a tiny cage for his entire life would they? No, that would be horribly cruel. Shame on me for putting the idea in your head. So what do other people do for the ones who share my belief? They sell us free-range chickens.
Now, if some wacko put a proposition on the ballet that said all
animals have to be locked in cages, would you vote in favor of it? Of course you wouldn’t. Even though you’re smart enough not to pay extra for free range chickens, you’d still vote against it because you love your doggie and locking him in a cage would take away his freedom. So you vote to ensure his freedom at the risk of setting the other animals, including chickens, free.
Thankfully that proposition
was not on the ballot, so you didn’t have to make that tough decision. Farmers can continue to raise free-range chickens and it doesn’t bother you. It doesn’t affect you. You
don’t have to buy them if you don’t want to. It was all just a bad dream. But, wait, it wasn’t just a dream. It was real. It was on the ballot but it wasn’t about animals. It was
about people and you voted to take away the freedom of gay couples. Why? They’re not proposing to you. Honoring their marriage wouldn’t affect you. It may not yet be time for you to agree to support all living things, but it is time for you to support all people.
Jacob Werblow
Eugene