Activist and possible Presidential candidate, Fred Karger‘s organization Californians Against Hate has a brand new nationwide focus, a brand new look and a brand new name: Rights Equal Rights. Here’s a taste of the online announcement that went up this morning:
We’re Changing Our Name
Rights Equal Rights
It’s been just two years since a small group of friends and I started Californians Against Hate to draw attention to the mega-donors to California’s Proposition 8 campaign. It’s been a busy 23 months.
We began on July 18, 2008 by helping to assemble a coalition of LGBT organizations and labor in San Diego to boycott Doug Manchester’s three hotels. Doug Manchester had contributed $125,000 in very early money to quality and pass Proposition 8, which took marriage rights away from millions of Californians. Why should we support his three hotels, only to have that money used against us? [ ... ]
Our new name reflects our new direction and makes us more national in scope.
Rest assured, that I have never been more determined and motivated to help lead the LGBTQ community in our fight for full equal rights in this country.
Younger people who begin to realize that they might be lesbian, gay, bi-sexual transgender or queer will soon be afforded all the same rights as their brothers, sisters friends and neighbors.
That is what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
We will settle for nothing less.
Fred Karger: “Rest assured, that I have never been more determined and motivated to help lead the LGBTQ community in our fight for full equal rights in this country.”
