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Hypocrisy of the Anti-Gay Movement

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, January 29 2009, 20:55:10 (CET)
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Having a great time anticipating the Supreme Court ruling striking down Proposition 8 in California...the law that bars Gay couples from marriage. The anti-Gay crowd is making a righteous fuss about the “will of the people” and “the people have spoken”...calling the Gay rights people “childish” and “anti-democracy” because they want to appeal to the courts to decide the issue...which is what the Constitution allows, even mandates, in a democracy.

They seem to think that whatever the people say has to become law. How would they like it if in 100 years the people decide to do away with tax breaks for churches? Would they then extol the right of “the people” to pass whatever laws they want?

And if the will of the people must be respected in all cases then why do the religious folk continue to fight Free-Choice? The people, and our Supreme Court, have spoken, over and over they have said that abortion is legal....so why do religious people keep fighting that issue? Are they against the will of the people on some issues only...their issues?

The courts, and the majority, have said that a fetus isn’t “alive” in a legal/medical sense. Life has been defined, for legal NOT religious purposes, as being able to survive outside the mother’s body...that until a fetus can do that it is not technically or legally alive...rather it is a growth feeding off the mother’s body and a mother has a right to decide what is done with her body...a mother not the church or the government. Religious folk may not like that but tough shit...there are a lot of things about them I don’t like, so we’re even.

No one has said that religious folk MUST get abortions. No one has said that religious folk MUST marry a person of their same sex. These are issues of CHOICE...something religious folk reserve only for themselves while the rest of us must abide by THEIR choices.

It’s a very simple legal issue of civil rights...has nothing to do with morality. I think it’s immoral for churches to get tax-breaks..but they do. It’s very simple....the question is; can the majority pass a law that deprives a minority of equal rights? It doesn’t matter that traditionally marriage has been between a man and a woman. The issue never came up before because society terrorized Gay people. It’s taken years of hard work and suffering to come out of the big closet...and now that they’re out they want equal rights denied to them for centuries.

It wasn’t long ago when no one heard of a Black man marrying a White woman...it “just wasn’t done”. There were laws against it....tradition was against it....but for all of that it was still discrimination and our glorious Constitution allows peaceful ways to grow and change...not everyone liked that particular change...but it came and we’re all the better for it.

The religious folk are going to lose this round...as racists lost on interracial marriage.

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