pantoum's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA 244. These goddamn social conservatives want it both ways. When the courts don�t rule in favor of their biases, they complain that we have radical judges who write law in accordance with their own social agendas and insist that legislators should decide law, not judges. Then the CA legislators recognize discrimination when they see it and expand the definition of marriage to include civil contracts between two people of either gender�a fair-minded definition that addresses the problem of offering benefits to some couples who fall in love while denying them to others, that considers the 14th Amendment for Gawd�s sake�and the governor says he�ll veto the legislation because the courts and the voters should decide. You can�t even count his argument about the Amendment because so much time has passed. Polls indicate that the legislature roughly mirrors popular opinion. Part of why we have a three-tiered government is so that biased voters, the majority, do not tyrannize the minority. It�s called democracy in action, equal justice for ALL, not just for the Christianist majority. Today�s New York Times editorial �Where�s the Governator Now?� puts it better:
And now I�m off to get my titties�and yes let�s do note that Pottergrrl says I have six inches of cleavage�squashed flat as a pancake in the name of health. 12:20 p.m. - 2005-09-09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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