[SYSK] Keith Olbermann speaks out on Proposition 8
November 11th, 2008 by Jeff KewKeith Olbermann, while considered far left to many, hit an emotional, controversial issue in this country that has many divided. An issue that touches so many in this country on their own civil rights and those that recognize the civil rights of so many being suppressed in a nation where all men are supposedly “created equal”, where the state and religion stand on their own. Where the freedoms of a state grant the freedom of religion to no extent. A governmental state that gives no bounds to religious values and the issues of the state never have to overlap with those freedoms if the people simply allow the constitution to stand on its own values and protections alone. These constitutional freedoms have been overruled, by a religious agenda that take away the freedom of religion to so many of its citizens. This nation is currently under multi-class citizenship. Something that should never exist in “the land of the free.” It is undebatable that one group of citizens do not have the equal rights as the rest of the nation. This speech, this video, captures some of the raw emotion and common sense this country is evidently forgetting in what is the civil rights issue of our time.
[...] have handled this debate better. Anyone doubting his thoughts on the issue need only turn to his Prop 8 special commentary around this time last year. He made the argument personal to his viewers without having the direct [...]
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