Theocracy Alert: The myth of the will of the people

[dweller]

By Eavan Callaghan

October 6, 2005—I'm so tired of hearing about the will of the people. You
can't put the discrimination of a minority up to a vote of the majority. That's
fundamentally flawed.

I know the majority of people are not gay. I know the majority of the people
probably even think that being gay is wrong. What the majority of the people
want is not the point. Yet the good Reverend Louis P. Sheldon, the right-wing
fundamentalist Christian zealot, uses just such a flawed argument. In
comments regarding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of AB 849, the
bill passed by the California Legislature that would have provided equal rights
and protections to all of the citizens of the State of California, Sheldon said, "
. . . the people already spoke on marriage. 4.6 million Californians can't be
wrong when it comes to marriage . . .",

I will attempt to educate Reverend Sheldon and his flock of uneducated
followers on the Constitution of the United States. I will try to keep it as
simple as possible out of respect for the very real possibility that Lou
Sheldon and his follower's obvious lack of education could be the result of a
lack of intelligence.

Proposition 22 was passed by the voters in California in the 2000 election
and limits marriage only to opposite sex couples. Benjamin Lopez, Reverend
Sheldon's California lobbyist, proudly proclaims, ". . . 4.6 million Californians
who voted for Prop 22 can't be ignored simply to appease a small liberal
minority." Well, yes they can, Mr. Lopez, but only if we strictly adhere to the
Constitution and the original intent of the Founding Fathers as Lou Sheldon,
et al, claim to want.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/TheocracyAlert/html/100605callaghan.html

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[Erika]

1. Those that are disenfranchised should scream like hell

Taxation without representation. That's what W has done. He and his far right pundits need to know THEY have tried to usurp the voice of the majority. They need to be shut down.

[dweller]

2. we should all be screaming like hell ...

'i did not scream like Hell when they disenfranchised the gays, for i was not gay ... '

et al.
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