Believe that I'm not trying to read the voters' minds. I think it is small, petty, ugly, vindictive and a whole host of grossly insecure to have voted for prop 8, which is narrow-minded and very very reminiscent of laws against racial marriage, which are hideously outdated now.
The course of progress means that those people with more liberal attitudes raise voices against what they see as injustice. The fact that half the US at one point wanted slavery does not, for instance, make slavery good because the slaves aren't making the laws; the people who are in power are. And this, to me, is a more subtle version of that: the people who are voting against gay marriage are not the people affected by the vote. The marriages of gay men, and lesbian women, do nothing whatsoever to demean the marriages of anyone else.
If you think every law that's ever been passed by the people in power is good, I invite you to revisit your history. Or ours. If you think every majority vote that has ever been passed should pass without question, I invite you to do the same.
People change. Knowledge changes. Opinions change. It's why women can vote, among other things :P.
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Re: CA Supreme Court decision
Date: 2009-06-05 03:11 am (UTC)The course of progress means that those people with more liberal attitudes raise voices against what they see as injustice. The fact that half the US at one point wanted slavery does not, for instance, make slavery good because the slaves aren't making the laws; the people who are in power are. And this, to me, is a more subtle version of that: the people who are voting against gay marriage are not the people affected by the vote. The marriages of gay men, and lesbian women, do nothing whatsoever to demean the marriages of anyone else.
If you think every law that's ever been passed by the people in power is good, I invite you to revisit your history. Or ours. If you think every majority vote that has ever been passed should pass without question, I invite you to do the same.
People change. Knowledge changes. Opinions change. It's why women can vote, among other things :P.