Uncle Sam's gotta wise up

[eumelia]

Wow.

Maine.

Just another place in the US in which people get to decide who has civil rights, who has the right to humanity and who gets a say in people's lives.

It looks like it's down hill from there, because my friends that is not democracy. Democracy is not just "Majority Rules", it's also "Defense of the Minority".
The minority populations are supposed to be accorded with the same rights and obligations under the law as citizens.
If you require the same obligations, but not the rights accorded, then those are no longer rights.

They are privileges.

My heart goes out to my LGBTQ brothers, sisters and sibs in Maine and the US in general.

I can only hope things will get better and that those cowardly referendums and votes are repealed in some way and will no longer be able to affect your lives.

Same goes to Virginians and the people of New-Jersey - it would appear that the rhetoric of fear reigns strong in light of Obama.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Yes, if anything sadly it seems that Obamas victory is just further broadening the divide in America.

Not sure where it ends. Before long both sides will find living with each other utterly intolerable.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

An ideological divide it may be, but the notion that civil rights of voted about via referendum, what the hell!?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

And not just voted about via referendum, also civil rights voted out of existence.

I bet the Republicans put their mind to it they could probably get their followers to vote away most of that pesky constitution.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

it would appear that the rhetoric of fear reigns strong in light of Obama.

Yeah, to me, it feels like the descent into the paranoid style after Tony Blair's election win, only on fast-forward. I keep wondering, "What happened to YES WE CAN?"

Oh, one little ray of hope, though: a district in upstate NY that has been Republican since there's been a Republican Party to speak of went Democratic this time around because the politicians of the political right pretty well fell out - a moderate Republican was fielded by the local GOP, and the right wing were so unhappy they fielded their own candidate who ended up splitting the conservative vote.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I suppose that is encouraging, but as long as Churches are able to lobby the secular institutions of government America is going to remain in deep shit.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Hugely depressing result as a New Jerseyan, a liberal, and a supporter of human rights for everyone. I do think there's something to the White House statement that the gubernatorial results were more local than national, but the optics on the national picture are just bad, and the Maine result is indefensible. I did hear Congressman Barney Frank on NPR point out that the margins on gay marriage votes are getting thinner, but it shouldn't take demographic decay to secure human rights for everyone the rights of the minority.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Or any demographic or referendum.
If people are citizens, they should get every right and privilege accorded to them.
It's not that difficult.
Marriage, imo, should be abolished as a system, but that;s neither here nor there.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

So simple, and yet so hard.