Comments on: Victory in Vermont! http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/ A gay Christian moving the forbidden from the footnotes. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:57:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Case of Vermont’s Missing Vote | Asterisk http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-3543 The Case of Vermont’s Missing Vote | Asterisk Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:31:59 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-3543 [...] the euphoria over yesterday’s Victory in Vermont! passes, more details are becoming known. Many, if not all, of the major Religious Right leaders [...] [...] the euphoria over yesterday’s Victory in Vermont! passes, more details are becoming known. Many, if not all, of the major Religious Right leaders [...]

]]> By: Matt Algren http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-1824 Matt Algren Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:20:43 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-1824 Welcome, Aaron! I'm not sure why that would be either ironic or relevant. If we decided civil rights by popular vote, minorities would have no rights at all. At the time of Loving v. Virginia, <a href="http://bit.ly/65cPt" rel="nofollow">73% of Americans</a> thought interracial marriage should be illegal, with only 20% saying it should be legal and 8% having no opinion. In fact, based on the same Gallup data, if we depended on public referendums to decide that issue, interracial marriage would have been illegal until <strong>1997</strong>. Of course, public opinion at that time was affected by a generation and a half brought up with legal interracial marriage. As for people being voted out of office, go ahead. You have every right to vote people out if you disagree with them. IIRC, the same threat was made when Vermont passed civil unions nine years ago, and not much came of it. Welcome, Aaron!

I’m not sure why that would be either ironic or relevant. If we decided civil rights by popular vote, minorities would have no rights at all.

At the time of Loving v. Virginia, 73% of Americans thought interracial marriage should be illegal, with only 20% saying it should be legal and 8% having no opinion.

In fact, based on the same Gallup data, if we depended on public referendums to decide that issue, interracial marriage would have been illegal until 1997. Of course, public opinion at that time was affected by a generation and a half brought up with legal interracial marriage.

As for people being voted out of office, go ahead. You have every right to vote people out if you disagree with them. IIRC, the same threat was made when Vermont passed civil unions nine years ago, and not much came of it.

]]> By: Aaron http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-1807 Aaron Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:17:16 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/victory-in-vermont/#comment-1807 It is ironic that the article not mention that the citizens overwhelmingly opose this by nearly 65%. It looks like maybe 30% or so of the politicians won't be incumbents next term seeing as how the people wanted a either a NO vote or a referendum. It is ironic that the article not mention that the citizens overwhelmingly opose this by nearly 65%. It looks like maybe 30% or so of the politicians won’t be incumbents next term seeing as how the people wanted a either a NO vote or a referendum.

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