A day of greatness and horror

Although America is celebrating a well-deserved victory for Barack, we have once again seen obsessive bigots trying interfere with other people's lives win. I am, of course, referring to gay marriage in California and Florida being re-illegalised. How was it done? Through a popular vote. No, I am not joking. These states left the rights of a minority group in the hands of the majority. To the people who thought this was a good idea...


SINCE WHEN HAVE THE MAJORITY EVER SUPPORTED THE MINORITY'S RIGHTS? Can you imagine if America left Brown v. Board of Education up to a vote? Would it have passed? Would American schools still have been desegregated?

Hell no. I have no doubt that if the American populace could legally overturn Supreme Court decisions, then the American people (ie at least 51%) would have staunchly refused to accept any form of racial integration: because human beings, more often then not, are afraid of change. They are afraid that if a group of people (whether it's women, blacks or gays) are given rights, then the rights of the majority are less*. Thankfully, there is a significany minority of people who recognise that giving a certain community the same rights doesn't lessen the significance of those rights for the people who already have them. The women's suffrage movement didn't lessen the importance of men's voting rights. Blacks using the same shops, carriages and education as whites didn't lessen whites' rights. And gays marrying doesn't reduce the significance of marriage for straight marriages.

That's why a democratic country should have an independent Court and leave the people out of it. Because people have nasty tendency to want to take away other people's rights. You can't leave civil rights up to a vote, because as we've seen, more often then not the majority will keep the status quo.

And just a final message-both Barack and Joe won't support equal marriage.

Cross posted here and here.

*Don't blame me for this. I didn't create this warped logic.