This week, California's supreme court struck down the state's law defining marriage as being exclusively between persons of differing genders. Gay rights activists cheered the state constitutional ruling. Ellen DeGeneres lost little time in announcing her upcoming nuptials. Yes, there has been dancing in the streets.
However, some conservative Republicans are almost as gleeful. They see this as a clear opportunity to rally their electoral base to get them to the polls in November. They plan to hold the specter of same gender couples being able to marry, adopt children, and file joint tax returns up as a nightmarish abomination that only their votes for the Republican party candidates can prevent.
Right wing Republicans have been less than enthusiastic about their apparent presidential nominee, John McCain. There has been considerable concern that they might just stay home in November. As a consequence, the Republicans face a real possibility of substantial losses at all political levels. However, being able to stir up anti-gay feelings may be just the catalyst they need to get their people to the polls. The California ruling makes it more likely that will happen.
I don't think the GOP necessarily likes being the haven of bigots. But in an election year like this one, they'll take their votes wherever they can get them. When opportunity knocks, they don't care if it's the devil on the other side of the door.
That's Wade's two cents.
Wade Houston
May 17, 2008
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The religious right hide under the guise of of GOP. They are being cowards in my opinion and just need to stop hiding in the GOP, Christianity and their Bible and fight us GLBTs with their lives.
They think they can police everybody else with their brand
of "religion" creating a USA
ruled by only them and their own kind. To do this would step on the rights of everyone else including mine to be who I am. I am glad the California ruling went the way it did. To step on my right to be who "I am" and everybody else's including the poor and all minorities including GBLT leads to riots/bloodshed. This country was founded on freedom of all not for the freedom of one bigoted group of people to rule all in domination seeing fit to impose their bigoted "narrow religious views" and I for one ain't going to be ruled by no one including "them" or religion of any kind. I am not ruled by any political party either including the bigoted,arrogant President Bush or his kind. His kind and "religious right" ain't going to change US human society by taking away freedoms and cloning us to think like they to judge by they
"narrowed dogmatic religious system
of beliefs" or creating a controlled "religious, utopic USA" with every person cloned to be like them controlled like their puppets to make policing easier, destroying
any discord and anyone's right to be different. May I remind you people, we have a republic as
dictated by the Constitution, ruled by everybody, for everybody and not
for just the "religious right" to
rule as a "religious kingdom of US"
The founding Fathers did not degree
this and this is plainly why separation of religion and state
are cemented into the Constitution.
I hope their efforts to manipulate the State of California are soundly defeated. I won't shed any tears but gleefully clap and I have no compassion towards them or towards any of other types of people like KKK et al who try to kill the right of people like me, my brothers and sisters to be who we are. Call me bigoted if you dare but I
will wear "the label" with pride
thumbing it in your face. I am a
independent Libertarian not ruled by no one. Score one for the GLBT and the California Supreme Court and "BOO" for the "religious right". May the GLBT start marrying
en masse and adopting, creating
our own families.
Libwm1956
Georgia
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