Now I have come off my little cloud of joy and bliss after the vote in the Vermont legislature what do I see.
The wing-nuts are whining:
"Teh gay agenda is taking my freedoms away!"
Hey wingnuts:
1] There is no "Gay agenda".
2] If they are so hot on freedom why don't they mind their own f**king business?
Dear wing-nuts it is not an "agenda" it's a demand for equal rights, not more rights, just equal, it is not about your life, it's about ours. If any one is interfering and demanding big government its you, now you want a federal law banning same sex marriage. I really do wish you would make your f**king minds up what type of government you want, one that makes laws governing your private life or one that doesn't.
All I want is equality nothing more and nothing less.
This ad is ridiculous in the extreme, its nothing to do with their freedom its to do with our freedom, they have it, we are fighting for it.
This pile of santimonious crap and fear mongering cost $1.5million, I am sure there were better things that this money could have been used for.
I would remind them what one of our most brilliant founding fathers said:
"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
--Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801.
That is all I ask.
For the newly reformed Ayn Rand fan club:
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote: a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority."
--Ayn Rand
Only the Talibangelical right could think otherwise.
Lets take a look at the National Organization for Marriage.
Maggie Gallagher
On January 26, 2005, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post uncovered records of Gallagher receiving payments of tens of thousands of dollars from the Department of Health and Human Services from 2002-2003 for helping the George W. Bush administration promote the President's "healthy marriage" initiative.[4] During this time, Gallagher testified before Congress repeatedly in favor of "healthy marriage" programs, but never disclosed the payments
Robert P. George
a Catholic, has influenced Protestant and observant Jewish scholars and religious leaders, as well as Catholics. Under the auspices of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, he has worked closely with such figures as Richard John Neuhaus and David Novak. His natural law arguments for traditional moral principles have frequently been invoked by evangelical Christian figures such as James Dobson and Charles Colson.
Read
God's Reasons: The role of religious authority in debates on public policy
and
Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexuality,
Robert P. George
Intelligent bigoted people are behind this populist campaign, posing as the moral majority and inferring that religious morals come from a higher plane than merely secular ones.
Our laws include religious freedom this also means freedom from religion.
The audition.
I ask the question.
Don't these people have something more productive to do, like living their own lives and not ruining the lives of others.
Freedom and equality are the right of all, they are non-negotiable.