[quote]clip11 wrote:
MeinHerzBrennt wrote:
clip11 wrote:
MeinHerzBrennt wrote:
clip11 wrote:
Marriage in CA was originally between a man and a woman until actvist judges said otherwise. Then the people voted in prop 8 to put things back were they belong. How they should be.
Why cant gays accept that and go somewhere and sit down and shut up?
Such ignorance.
Your post could also have read “marrige in 1/3 of the States prohibited interracial marriage until activist judges said otherwise…Why can’t blacks and whites accept that and go somewhere and sit down and shut up?”
We are a better country because of those “activist judges” on the Supreme Court, who told the majority to sit down and shut the fuck up when it came to discriminating against people because of some personal characteristic or quality they possessed.
The above example can be modified to fit other situations as well.
I love how people are so hypnotized about the idea that somehow, if the majority votes for it, it MUST stand, no exceptions.
The majority has often been wrong.
Look im black, but if interracial marriage was made law that way then it was the wrong way to do it. If its wrong over here its wrong over there.
You really think it was wrong for the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution in a manner that struck down discrimination on account of peoples’ race?
What about how the Court interpreted the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause? If it wasn’t for the Court’s “activist” approach, you may have gone to an all-black school because the white majority thought you were inferior and didn’t want you associating with their kids.
Do you really still feel that if the majority votes for it, it must stand? I find that extremely confusing, especially coming from a black person (i’m generally confused as to why black’s voted in overwhelming support for Prop 8).
I went to an all black school anyways. But this isnt about that its about giving gays the right to marry. I hate it when ppl try to draw a comparison between the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and the gay movement of today. Gay living is a lifestyle choice that they would like to make everyone else accept. Gays arent kept out of schools because theyre gay we were because we’re black. Gays can hide their preference i cant hide my skin color. And as for the interracial marriage deal, most ppl marry inside their race anyways so that wasnt some big “breakthrough”.
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You hate it because it dramatically weakens your argument.
You can argue all you want about how there is no correlation; common sense says otherwise.
This is yet again a case of the majority making up reason after reason as to why we should still discriminate.
As for your last point, I believe one third of states banned interracial marriage before the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to do so. It was indeed “some big breakthrough.”