This is what happens when we become complacent. None of us believed it would be upheld because it was LAME.
Guess what?
The reason there is same-sex marriage in places like Iowa is because the GLBT community there are NOT complacent. They FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL for that right. And they WON.
Guess what we need to do?
(Yeh, I know, I'm not a Californian. I'm working on that. *points to Invisible Cunning Plan* Nevada just shot down domestic partnership. I'm not anywhere near a relationship, but it's the principle of the thing.)
Very good point-protesting is fun and may build solidarity but it does nothing to actually change things-it does draw attention that something is happening however. It needs to be followed up with political legal action and in this day and age with web access there is no reason that everyone should not be riting legeslators and congress people-an onslught is what is needed and pressure-pressure them....gays are voters-they buy products and if mobilized are a great force-after all Prop 8 is un-constitutional! ACLU is active on the issue.
"Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice."
Thanks for the Quote-There ere people who were anti slavery at the iception of this country Hamilton was very active about it-but Jefferson and Burr smeared his reputation and Burr finally killed him. The same stuff going on b ack then as no ignorant people. I don't know much about states rights, but Federal oversteps states in legal matters. The Constitution clearly states Seperation of Church and State. Like the right for all men to be free, although there were people like Hamilton and Adams that anted to give women the right to vote they were far out numbered by men who did not want women included -took awhile but it finally happened-just after Af-Am men got the vote. Prop 8 will be overturned but it will take effort. PS Protesting is not enough and frankly in this case may even be more harmful if it does not gather more people to take legal action and force politicians to vote against it.
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It's a win really, if ya think about it. Small increments count.
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Guess what?
The reason there is same-sex marriage in places like Iowa is because the GLBT community there are NOT complacent. They FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL for that right. And they WON.
Guess what we need to do?
(Yeh, I know, I'm not a Californian. I'm working on that. *points to Invisible Cunning Plan* Nevada just shot down domestic partnership. I'm not anywhere near a relationship, but it's the principle of the thing.)
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It needs to be followed up with political legal action and in this day and age with web access there is no reason that everyone should not be riting legeslators and congress people-an onslught is what is needed and pressure-pressure them....gays are voters-they buy products and if mobilized are a great force-after all Prop 8 is un-constitutional!
ACLU is active on the issue.
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Quoting Martin Luther King:
"Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has
only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that
would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness--justice."
I thought this was "Appropriate".
http://www.mlkonline.net/quotes.html
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The same stuff going on b ack then as no ignorant people.
I don't know much about states rights, but Federal oversteps states in legal matters.
The Constitution clearly states Seperation of Church and State.
Like the right for all men to be free, although there were people like Hamilton and Adams that anted to give women the right to vote they were far out numbered by men who did not want women included -took awhile but it finally happened-just after Af-Am men got the vote.
Prop 8 will be overturned but it will take effort.
PS Protesting is not enough and frankly in this case may even be more harmful if it does not gather more people to take legal action and force politicians to vote against it.
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