Oh my goodness YES.

(Taken from jedirita's journal.)

Stop whatever you're doing and read this--it's a speech opposing a bill in Texas that would ban gay marriage:


HJR 6 Speech by Representative Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston)

I have been a member of this august body for three decades, and today
is one of the all-time low points. We are going in the wrong direction,
in the direction of hate and fear and discrimination. Members, we all
know what this is about; this is the politics of divisiveness at its
worst, a wedge issue that is meant to divide.

Members, this issue is a distraction from the real things we need to be
working on. At the end of this session, this Legislature, this
Leadership will not be able to deliver the people of Texas, fundamental
and fair answers to the pressing issues of our day.

Let's look at what this amendment does not do: It does not give one
Texas citizen meaningful tax relief. It does not reform or fully fund
our education system. It does not restore one child to CHIP, who was
cut from health insurance last session. It does not put one dime into
raising Texas' Third World access to health care. It does not do one
thing to care for or protect one elderly person or one child in this
state. In fact, it does not even do anything to protect one marriage.

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Somebody get this woman in the White House, please! I want a button...