Bans on marriage
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juliaserano said it best:
eliminating people's rights...
As of today, I refuse to acknowledge 52% of Californian's rights! I will do so randomly, at my choosing. I have deemed myself the ultimate arbiter of rights! After all, as a California voter, I have a God given right to decide who is entitled to "rights" and who is not.
Thus, by the powers vested in me as a California voter, I declare that:
1) Freedom of religion has been eliminated for all of the Mormons and Catholic who funded the "yes on 8" ads
2) Freedom of speech has been eliminated for anyone who voted for prop 8.
3) And if you fall into class "1" or class "2", then too bad, because I am eliminating your right to marry too. Ha!
I suppose in my own words I should add that I'm pissed as hell about all the states with anti-marriage amendments. The only silver lining to this is that young voters are more likely to support marriage equality. But this is still outrageous. I wonder if maybe the LGBT movement has played it too safe and too "nice"...we've spent the last 10-20 years telling the world that we're just like them and asking them to please tolerate us. Maybe we need to get angry and get more active, like maybe we need to protest outside of hospitals that forbid us to visit our partners (the hospital in Florida last year that forbade the partner of a dying woman to see her before she died comes to mind). Maybe we need to talk more about the hardships in our lives due to not being able to marry.
juliaserano said it best:eliminating people's rights...
As of today, I refuse to acknowledge 52% of Californian's rights! I will do so randomly, at my choosing. I have deemed myself the ultimate arbiter of rights! After all, as a California voter, I have a God given right to decide who is entitled to "rights" and who is not.
Thus, by the powers vested in me as a California voter, I declare that:
1) Freedom of religion has been eliminated for all of the Mormons and Catholic who funded the "yes on 8" ads
2) Freedom of speech has been eliminated for anyone who voted for prop 8.
3) And if you fall into class "1" or class "2", then too bad, because I am eliminating your right to marry too. Ha!
I suppose in my own words I should add that I'm pissed as hell about all the states with anti-marriage amendments. The only silver lining to this is that young voters are more likely to support marriage equality. But this is still outrageous. I wonder if maybe the LGBT movement has played it too safe and too "nice"...we've spent the last 10-20 years telling the world that we're just like them and asking them to please tolerate us. Maybe we need to get angry and get more active, like maybe we need to protest outside of hospitals that forbid us to visit our partners (the hospital in Florida last year that forbade the partner of a dying woman to see her before she died comes to mind). Maybe we need to talk more about the hardships in our lives due to not being able to marry.
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:37 pm (UTC)I read a generous and wise post (http://penknife.livejournal.com/374549.html) which tries to sort out the reasoning of the people who vote against equal marriage rights - and it helped me understand a little. But I still can't really understand.
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:48 am (UTC)