On Tuesday, voters in Maine got to decide whether or not to repeal the state's same-sex marriage law. Unfortunately, ignorance carried the day.
While I call them ignorant, the proponents of repeal portray themselves differently.
Right. They aren't anti-gay...merely pro-not gay people...or maybe more accurately anti-equality. No. Actually I think anti-gay is pretty accurate.
See the problem with Conservatism is that it fears change. If hard-core Conservatives had their way, we would still have worker's ghettos like in Lawrence, Massachusetts before the Bread and Roses strike. We would still have separate water fountains for blacks and whites. Minorities and all those in the lower economic classes would still "know their place".
But you see, civil rights weren't put to a popular vote. Ending slavery wasn't put to a popular vote. And there is a reason for that.
There are very few things Jesse Ventura and I agree on...but on CNN he summed it up quite nicely:
This isn't a gay rights issue. It is a human rights issue. Contrary to what the wing-nuts believe...homosexuals are people, too.
As the United States Declaration of Independence states:
Equal. Unalienable Rights. Liberty.
These are rights we should all share. Regardless of race, religion, age, sexuality, height, or any other idiotic way of pigeonholing groups of people.
With 87 percent of the vote counted early Wednesday, the same-sex marriage law was rejected 53 percent to 47 percent, according to the Bangor Daily News Web site.
While I call them ignorant, the proponents of repeal portray themselves differently.
On Tuesday night, the campaign manager of Stand for Marriage Maine, Frank Schubert, announced that the referendum to repeal the law had passed.
"It has all come together tonight, the institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine, and across this nation," Schubert said.
Scott Fish, a spokesman for the group, said the campaign had never been anti-gay.
"The campaign was very clear about that," he said by phone Wednesday. "This was a campaign about protecting traditional marriage."
Right. They aren't anti-gay...merely pro-not gay people...or maybe more accurately anti-equality. No. Actually I think anti-gay is pretty accurate.
See the problem with Conservatism is that it fears change. If hard-core Conservatives had their way, we would still have worker's ghettos like in Lawrence, Massachusetts before the Bread and Roses strike. We would still have separate water fountains for blacks and whites. Minorities and all those in the lower economic classes would still "know their place".
But you see, civil rights weren't put to a popular vote. Ending slavery wasn't put to a popular vote. And there is a reason for that.
There are very few things Jesse Ventura and I agree on...but on CNN he summed it up quite nicely:
You can't put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we'd have slavery, depending on how you worded it.
This isn't a gay rights issue. It is a human rights issue. Contrary to what the wing-nuts believe...homosexuals are people, too.
As the United States Declaration of Independence states:
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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Equal. Unalienable Rights. Liberty.
These are rights we should all share. Regardless of race, religion, age, sexuality, height, or any other idiotic way of pigeonholing groups of people.
2 comments:
Those wing-nuts aren't so bad as you think, nor are they so evil. They know that homosexuals are people, and I challenge you to find a human being, regardless of political affiliation, who thinks that homosexuals are less than people. That said, they're wrong people. Marriage is between a man, a woman, and God. It's been broken down so as to be less today, but that's what it really is.
Furthermore, do you understand how terrifying your proposition is for state-imposed marriage laws? State imposed. That's not the point of the United States of America. The point is that the people choose. Sway the people if you want something done, do not ever, ever, ever force it by means of the government.
I challenge you to find a human being, regardless of political affiliation, who thinks that homosexuals are less than people.
I assume that you aren't familiar with Pat Robertson or the late Jerry Falwell?
You claimed that Marriage is between a man, a woman, and God. Says who? There have been marriage ceremonies in every single culture all throughout history...not just the monotheistic ones. And certainly not just Christians.
Furthermore, do you understand how terrifying your proposition is for state-imposed marriage laws?
Only terrifying to people who have no problem using the might of the government to impose their own will (like DOMA) but then get all scared when it doesn't go their way. Like you.
That's not the point of the United States of America. The point is that the people choose. Sway the people if you want something done, do not ever, ever, ever force it by means of the government.
So should I assume you support the repeal of the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution since there was no popular vote? How about the nineteenth amendment? Better yet, how about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Wasn't DOMA just the big scary government infringing on your liberty by imposing a law about marriage?
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