Imagine if voters back in the 60s could go to the polls and vote on whether or not to desegregate. In how many states would that referendum have passed? Hmmm... my guess is ZERO!
Civil rights are just that, RIGHTS! People should not be allowed to choose them for others that are "DIFFERENT".
You don't have to think back too far to see how this is never a good solution. Remember the Equal Rights Amendment, fondly remembered as the E.R.A.? It was a very noble attempt to gasp give women the same rights as men. It gave flight to right wing groups like Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. If the Eagle Forum still exists it is probably a very vocal tea-bagging group today.
And now, we are allowing religious prejudice and right wingers to determine who can and can not marry. Maine pulled a California, with help from the Catholics instead of the Mormons. This is especially galling:
The Catholic Church was a leading supporter of the repeal campaign, even asking parishes to pass a second collection plate at Sunday mass to help the cause.
Thank goodness not all religious people are so close-minded and hateful. Here is a fabulous speech by the (reitired) Episcopal Bishop Spong.
I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is "high-sounding, pious rhetoric."
God help us if this trend continues in this country. If you are a religious person then please pray for a strong supreme court that can sort out this kind of bigotry and call it like it is. And religious or not-speak out at the injustice that results from mass bigotry!
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