Another Voice for Equality

After carefully considering the arguments, I am coming out at as voice for equality. We can't have second class citizens, after all, and discriminate against a historically oppressed minority. Why should anyone else be able to tell someone else how to live, or make others conform to their narrow views? The people who oppose this equality are doing so because of their church has told them to. Jesus never said anything about this, though. These people are our friends, our neighbors, or family, our coworkers, and they pay taxes.

This is why I am coming out for awarding University of California degrees for any participants in Indian gaming who request them.

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Now some people may object to this, saying that gambling or running a gambling establishment isn't the same as doing UC coursework. But some people have no interest in doing UC coursework, but enjoy gaming, and they want the benefits and respect that come along with a UC degree. And denying them the UC degree denies them equal access and protection. It doesn't matter that there are other schools. We can't have separate-but-equal, and the University of California, as a government institution, can't discriminate. Other people have been denied UC degrees in the past, too. Denying a UC degree to an Indian gamer is the same kind of bigotry.

Sure, some people object to gaming on religious grounds, but we have separation of church and state. And because we have separation of church and state, we can't deny UC degrees to these people.

Tribal groups are historically oppressed, especially in relation to public education. As such, we can't deny them what they want.

To those who oppose this equality, I ask, how does it hurt you? How does this hurt your education? You really shouldn’t talk. So many of you never complete your education, or you switch majors, or you fail in your careers, or you stop doing jobs related to your degrees, or you go back and get a different degree – some of you several times! Some of you have three degrees! All these people are asking for is one. Some of you have gambled, too, so you really shouldn’t talk. Perhaps you are opposing this because you really are a closet gambler. And guess what? Some Indian gamers do the very same kind of professional work that people with UC degrees do.

Jesus never said anything about Indian gaming.

You can't judge gaming administrators and participants. And since you can’t judge them, you have to give them UC degrees. Besides, it would make them happy, and isn't that a fundamental right?

If we can get a judge or entire court to agree with us, that will make it a fundamental right.

Who are you to say what qualifies as UC coursework anyway? Shall we vote on your degree now?

Sure, there are such things as gaming licenses, and player club memberships, but those aren't as prestigious or well regarded as UC degrees.

Next up: The Mormon church's views on caffeine shouldn't prevent the FDA from approving the labeling coffee as milk. After all, some people are lactose intolerant – how can we be so cruel towards them?