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Final election thoughts:
California, I'm disappointed. I expected the other two gay marriage bans in other states to go through, but I thought you would vote for sanity and compassion and human rights and quash yours. You didn't. It was close, but too many of you were bigoted, for that's what it is: bigotry.
I understand that there is currently a push to dispute this amendment with the Supreme Court, as it denies a minority group the rights granted to a majority group and is thus unconstitutional, just as denying African-Americans the right to marry in this country would be unconstitutional. I hope that happens -- I find that to be an excellent argument.
We shall see. This battle might have been lost but the war is far from over.
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Came across this on John Scalzi's blog, so many of you may have already seen it. Fox News (!) did a bit on the untold, off-the-record-until-after-the-election things their reporter was told about Sarah Palin by staffers in the McCain campaign. It's... interesting and would indicate that there was little-to-no vetting of her as a candidate beforehand. Click here if you're interested in hearing it.
California, I'm disappointed. I expected the other two gay marriage bans in other states to go through, but I thought you would vote for sanity and compassion and human rights and quash yours. You didn't. It was close, but too many of you were bigoted, for that's what it is: bigotry.
I understand that there is currently a push to dispute this amendment with the Supreme Court, as it denies a minority group the rights granted to a majority group and is thus unconstitutional, just as denying African-Americans the right to marry in this country would be unconstitutional. I hope that happens -- I find that to be an excellent argument.
We shall see. This battle might have been lost but the war is far from over.
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Came across this on John Scalzi's blog, so many of you may have already seen it. Fox News (!) did a bit on the untold, off-the-record-until-after-the-election things their reporter was told about Sarah Palin by staffers in the McCain campaign. It's... interesting and would indicate that there was little-to-no vetting of her as a candidate beforehand. Click here if you're interested in hearing it.
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*sigh* This is something that you assume every adult knows. How can she not? I'm feeling kind of traumatized by this news, actually. Someone tell me this is not true!
You know, in another LJ, I read about how there is a significant minority of poorly educated adults who believe that Russia invaded Georgia, USA, and are confused as to why "no one cares" and no efforts are being made to defend the homeland from Russian invasion! Of course, none of them is running for high office. *head desk*
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Re: Kevin Drum On Barbie
;-)