My Blog

I decided to start a blog — and have this as my first entry.  Please read it and send it to everyone.  Modify for yourself and send it to everyone. 

I am Jeff Mack. I am a second class citizen. I am not equal, at least in the eyes of our President.

Read this and then call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on the Federal Marriage Amendment!

I am an American. I am a son. I am a brother. I am an uncle. I am a gay
republican. I voted for John Kerry. I wish I had a President I could
support. I dont.

George Bush is not a true republican.

I am sad and disillusioned. The party to which I belong has strayed from its core beliefs and has become a puppet of the extreme right and big money interest groups. I am a republican that believes in small government, small government spending, low taxes for all, privacy and states rights.

President Bush does not believe this.

I am thinking of my niece and nephew. I want my niece and nephew to grow up in a great country that respects all of its citizens: One where not just the richest one percent get tax cuts; One where the government works for the people but doesnt invade their homes or their bedrooms; One where my president doesnt run up a record national debt that was non-existent 6 years ago; One where if my niece or nephew are gay or straight they will have the same rights as their sibling; One that is respected in the world community;

One where I am equal.

What people dont understand is that the current President of the United States made history when he called a press conference and announced that he was going to support an amendment
that would make a minority group second class citizens and use the most
sacred document in this country to do so. No president has ever done this.

He will do it again next week.

If he had done this for a racial minority group, he would have been
impeached. This President said to the world that I am not equal.

I dont want to get married, yet. I do want the option. I also want my friends who are in loving and committed relationships to have the same rights as our straight counterparts. We are denied over 1,100 rights everyday. This also affects their children.

Your church doesnt have to support my relationship, I would never ask that. I am not a Christian.

When we begin to deny rights to one segment of our population, where
does it end? Have we not learned from history?

I know there are a lot of issues in this country; the war, our children being killed over seas for this war, poverty, health care and many others that our President could use his bully pulpit to change, but instead he is trying to polarize the country over an issue that he thinks will keep his people in power.

I could live my entire life or my niece and nephew could live their entire lives in a country where their uncle will have never been equal.

I face living in a country where my love will never be equal.

I face living in a country where I will never be equal.

I am Jeff Mack.