Comments on: I Quit: 2009 Election Wrap Up

By: What We Can Gain From NJ Senate’s Vote Against Civil Rights | Asterisk

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:54:56 +0000

[...] rights movement has seen some remarkable losses in the last few months. In early November, voters overturned a marriage law in Maine. A month later, the New York Senate voted against civil rights in marriage. Then yesterday, after a [...]

By: transmothra

transmothra — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:03:05 +0000

Matt, you and i are NOT equals. You are far above me in every conceivable way.

(I'm not exactly a control group though, not being exactly 100% straight.)

There is absolutely no reason in the world why this gay marriage matter should even be an issue in the year 2009! All humans are equals, as explicitly laid out in the U.S. Constitution. PERIOD. The mere fact that civil rights are being actively denied is clearly completely un-Constitutional and wrong. It's un-American. The Supreme Court needs to step in and declare this pathetic vote every bit as invalid as they claim gay marriages to be, and rule once and for all that gay marriages are legal throughout every inch of land that is America.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:20:05 +0000

Oh, I so agree with you and badkitty. Separate but not equal is not equal. If it is different it is not the same. And I really get what you mean about letting the enemy choose the battlefield. Like Loving v. Virginia (see my post for today), this will likely be decided in the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, if it were before the Supreme Court today, I don't know what the outcome would be–or maybe I do. It probably wouldn't be pretty. If it is not the same for everyone, it is discriminatory and state laws that are discriminatory must be overridden at the national level.

By: badkitty812

badkitty812 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:21 +0000

I am completely in agreement with you. Why are we putting ourselves through this pain and anguish trying to push through legislation on the local level only to have it turn into a ballot measure in which the populace gets to vote away our rights.

This needs to be a national, legislative civil rights initiative. I am tired of the roller-coaster of emotions as others vote on my family. How do take it to the national level, what needs to be done to generate the drive needed to take it to Washington, to the courts and get this done?

I do not remember another time in the history of our country where the rights of a minority were repeatedly up to the voting choice of the majority. I live in the south, if a racial initiative was on the ballot to reintroduce segregation, it would pass. In the anonymity of the ballot box people are bigots.