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Source: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistor...outlook/3424597

It stinks when the Klan supports your amendment

By CLAY ROBISON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

STATE Rep. Warren Chisum apparently was surprised when the Ku Klux Klan announced plans to hold a pre-election rally in Austin in support of his constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage.

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He shouldn't have been, because flies are attracted to garbage wherever they may find it.

Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, isn't a cowardly cross-burner who takes delight in bashing African-Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. But his sponsorship of Proposition 2 on the Nov. 8 statewide ballot offers the KKK another opportunity to do what it does best ? promote prejudice and hatred, albeit of a different brand than produced the racial lynchings of not so many years ago.

I am not equating the debate over whether homosexual couples should be allowed to marry to the long, often bloody civil rights struggle of blacks and Hispanics in America.

But the effort to lock a ban on same-sex marriages into the Texas Constitution is prejudicial and hate-provoking and made worse by the fact that it springs from motivations that are primarily political, not legal.

Attracting the public, although unsolicited, endorsement of the Klan, a group synonymous with hate, speaks volumes about the proposal.

Chisum and other public officeholders promoting the proposition, including Gov. Rick Perry, contend it is necessary to "protect" the institution of traditional, heterosexual marriage in our state. Nonsense.

Traditional marriage is under attack from a host of social ills, including poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction, narcissism and plain ol' immaturity.

But it is under absolutely no danger from a gay or lesbian couple who wants their commitment to be legally recognized as a marriage.

Even if such governmental intrusion were necessary, which it isn't, Texas already has a law that recognizes only heterosexual marriages.

Adding that restriction to the constitution, which would make it harder to repeal and perhaps help protect the state policy against lawsuits, is the political equivalent of piling-on.

Rather than protecting marriage, the governor and other Proposition 2 promoters are pandering to the large number of Texans, many on the right wing of the Republican Party, who for one reason or another fear or hate homosexuality.

Many Texans who vote for Proposition 2 will be trying to impose their religious beliefs on governmental policy, which is bad enough.

But, even worse, others will be brandishing their prejudices against a minority group, participating in a form of gay-bashing that, in effect, is being sanctioned by the highest levels of state government.

Small wonder that the Klan decided to come buzzing in for an anti-homosexual marriage rally a few days before the election. Hate fests are its kind of party.

A spoke for this particular Klan group, the Texas arm of the American White Knights, said the group doesn't wear robes or hoods in public and doesn't shout racial obscenities. No amount of prettying up, though, will remove the stench of intolerance.

Meanwhile, arms flailing in the air, Chisum is trying to put as much distance between himself and the Klan event as possible.

"I have absolutely nothing to do with it," he told Houston Chronicle reporter Polly Ross Hughes.

"I didn't ask them to come and do this, and they're doing it on their own ? not with my approval."

I am sure a Klan rally was one of the last things that Chisum wanted before Election Day. But when you play footsie with prejudice, you risk stepping into something disgusting.

Robison is chief of the Chronicle's Austin Bureau. ([email protected])