19 November 2008
A reader sums it up nice and neat on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish:
The critical point that is put forward in every brief seeking Prop 8‘s invalidation is thatProp 8 stands for more than gay marriage: it stands for the premise that any minority group can suddenly be targeted by the majority for discrimination. It essentially eviscerates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution. This because a) the Supreme Court has held (in Perez, some 20 years before Loving) that marriage is a fundamental right and b) in the Marriage Cases, that homosexuals are a suspect class. Unless Prop 8 somehow by implication reversed either of those, Prop 8 means that any time we wanted to be mean to some minority group, we could.
Emphasis mine. This is about civil rights and equal protection. And while the courts have been asked to look into it, you can sign the petition to repeal it.
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13 November 2008
… of why having a theocracy is a bad idea.
From the Associated Press via MSNBC:
COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
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5 November 2008
My heart bleeds drops of disillusioned anguish. I have largely seen the good in people or tried to on most occasions. But today I cannot see it. The day is grey even though the sun is shining. Where yesterday I saw genuinely good people everywhere with the best of intentions and the belief of being equal still defined the country that we live in, today I see only bigotry and fanatical fundamentalism and stupidity.
Congratulations President Obama. But today I’m going home to be with my sweetie, even if I may never get the chance to legally call him husband.
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