Yeah, that's about the size of it
Nov. 5th, 2004 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziThis week I've been more eager than usual to identify myself as a Damn Yankee from Massachusetts, even if I do live in Georgia. There's the presidential election... well, enough and more than enough's been said on that. I voted, I got outvoted. People presumably voted how they thought best, and there's the end to that, at least for the time being. This is a story that never does end.
I'm actually more ashamed of the passing of the Marriage Protection bill, however it was named - Question One. It wasn't asking anyone to give any extra rights to anybody, it was merely asking whether people chose to leave things as they were or if people would choose to gratutiously slap people in the face to say no to a question that had not even been asked yet. ACat points out, quite correctly, that as much as anything it's to allow GA to explicitly deny the customary "full faith and credit" constitutional clause as far as it applies to other states who have legalized same sex marriage. Fulton county, where we cast our votes, is apparently flamingly liberal by GA standards. We were only sixty something percent in favor, as opposed to the eighty to ninety something percent most GA counties voted in favor of it by. Gee.
Anyhow, I happened to be looking through bookmarks tonight, and bumped into this, just thought I'd like to put it up - somehow it's accreted a chunk of what I was thinking about on the way home from work around it.
http://www.w00t-comic.net/20031012.html
Five cents worth of rambling rant.... we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
I'm actually more ashamed of the passing of the Marriage Protection bill, however it was named - Question One. It wasn't asking anyone to give any extra rights to anybody, it was merely asking whether people chose to leave things as they were or if people would choose to gratutiously slap people in the face to say no to a question that had not even been asked yet. ACat points out, quite correctly, that as much as anything it's to allow GA to explicitly deny the customary "full faith and credit" constitutional clause as far as it applies to other states who have legalized same sex marriage. Fulton county, where we cast our votes, is apparently flamingly liberal by GA standards. We were only sixty something percent in favor, as opposed to the eighty to ninety something percent most GA counties voted in favor of it by. Gee.
Anyhow, I happened to be looking through bookmarks tonight, and bumped into this, just thought I'd like to put it up - somehow it's accreted a chunk of what I was thinking about on the way home from work around it.
http://www.w00t-comic.net/20031012.html
Five cents worth of rambling rant.... we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
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Date: 2004-11-07 07:27 am (UTC)(That it discriminates homosexuals is pretty clear to me... I lived in Nebraska for a year, where common oppinion was to shoot all gays)
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Date: 2004-11-07 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-07 06:44 pm (UTC)If it's any consolation, Republican governor Mitt Romney's campaign to up the number of Republicans in Massachusetts's overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature was a complete flop. And some proponents of the proposed state amendment to "protect marriage" were defeated, while a few new opponents of such a ban were elected.
Now if we can only kick Romney out (but NOT upstairs!).
Ann O. (citizen of the Massachusetts nation - state).
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Date: 2004-11-07 07:09 pm (UTC)Just one question
Date: 2004-11-10 04:55 pm (UTC)I too find it disheartening that all 11 passed. To make things worse, Dubya will prolly pack the SCOTUS to ensure that any case reaching it finds the measures Constitutional, if it accepts a case at all.
Re: Just one question
Date: 2004-11-10 06:20 pm (UTC)