Posted on 11/14/2008 4:42:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
Amendement 2 oppresses another minority.
Last week, an anti-gay marriage measure passed statewide, garnering a majority of votes in every Florida county but Monroe. The ballot was one of the great paradoxes in American politics: The black community, the most oppressed group in U.S. history, comprised one of the unfriendliest demographics toward gays.
C. Stiles S.F. Mahee wanted to flee the state after the vote. Subject(s): Amendement 2, gay marriage banS.F. Mahee worked as the Broward organizer for Florida Red and Blue, which backed the measure. She is also a black lesbian who has urged the African-American community to take a stake in gay issues.
"Speculation is that the momentous turnout that Senator Obama provided may have actually hurt us in the end," she says. "If you can make the connection about discrimination, then African-Americans are overwhelmingly with us. But if someone else focuses on homosexuality, then we lose African-Americans."
When she got up the morning after the election, her first impulse was to flee the state. Then she learned Arizona and California, one of the nation's more progressive states, had passed virtually the same initiative the same day.
"I am in absolute and complete awe," she says. "I am in awe that we can elect the first African-American president and that on the same day, we can write discrimination into the state constitution. Our education is at the bottom of the heap. We have a state House that just had to apologize for its participation in slavery last session. We have a gay adoption ban. I am afraid Florida has become in this millennium what Mississippi was to the civil rights movement."
Apparently African-Americans didn’t get the memo that having the right to marry someone wearing a leather mask walking on all fours is a ‘civil right’.
There is no discrimination! They have all the rights we have. Marriage is by definition between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. Any man can marry one woman, and any woman can marry one man. Two men can’t marry, nor can two women. Black people are smart. They know this doesn’t compare to their civil rights plight.
bandwidth exceeded? damn...i should have purchased a bigger pair of jogging pants:(
“we can write discrimination into the state constitution. “
But we discriminate all the time.
You can’t marry your cousin. Or your dog. Or two other people. Or a minor. Or your mom.
Discrimination is not always a bad thing. Think about it.
What’s with this gay argument about being “denied civil rights”. A gay man still has every right to marry a woman. Same as a hetero guy. He does not have the “right” to marry his boyfriend, his brother, or his dog. What’s so hard to understand?????
It's all part of an Evan Wolfson-brainstormed clone of the arguments that won case after case for the NAACP before the Warren Court in the 50's and 60's.
Gays have to a) identify as an objectively differentiated group of human beings (hence the "essentialist" canard: all gays are all gay, all the time, from birth, by genetic differentiation) -- making homosexuality the (phony) equivalent of race or skin color, to make the legal fraud work, and then b) they have to claim natural rights and "discrimination", following exactly the old NAACP script.
That's the plan.
The coup de grace will be an Article IV attack on all States that don't recognize "homomarriage", using the sham marriages pretended at in Massachusetts and Noo Groinzy (they must have closet cases on the NJ supreme court, Wolfson and his buddies keep going back there).
For years, the gay lawyers were shut out of the U.S. Supreme Court because "gay marriage" didn't exist anywhere.
Now they can complain, courtesy of the Massachusetts conspiracy and coup (which Mitt Romney did nothing about -- hell, he should have called out the Massachusetts National Guard and sent their gay supreme court home rather than let them rule!).
And the only thing that will keep Swishy Souter from writing a Great Gay Manifesto forcing gay affirmation on everyone (and perforce closeting every Levitical religion) will be an amendment to the Constitution.
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