Liberal Commits Suicide

[Hazard]

* hismajesty[yL] notes that even if Kerry were elected, 11 states would have still banned gay marriage on 11/2/04.

I would have voted for the gay marriage ban if it had been on the ballot in Florida.

[hismajesty]

I would have too, if I were old enough to vote and if it were on the Virginia ballot.

[Adron]

There's an interesting thing I'd like to mention here in this thread.

I briefly read about the Cincinnati Issue #3 a week or so ago. It was described as a law that would forbid making laws to give preferential treatment based on sexual orientation.

What does that make you think of? What does an American think of, reading that description?



To me, that sounded like a law that would ban any laws against same sex marriage, or other preferential treatment given to heterosexuals.

You probably know what it was, since you live in the US.

[Kp]

I briefly read about the Cincinnati Issue #3 a week or so ago. It was described as a law that would forbid making laws to give preferential treatment based on sexual orientation.

What does that make you think of? What does an American think of, reading that description?

To me, that sounded like a law that would ban any laws against same sex marriage, or other preferential treatment given to heterosexuals.

You probably know what it was, since you live in the US.

It was an interesting idea, and one I wouldn't mind seeing refined a bit.  Properly expanded, it would fly in the face of quota-driven hiring and similar such things designed as reverse discrimination against those historically not discriminated against (i.e. white heterosexual males).

Americans are supposed to be equal under the law, but there's a great many places where that simply doesn't happen.  For instance, it's a more serious crime to kill a black man than to kill a white man, if you did it because you hated him.  It has been humorously described that "some of us are more equal than others."

[hismajesty]

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

[quasi-modo]

* hismajesty[yL] notes that even if Kerry were elected, 11 states would have still banned gay marriage on 11/2/04.

I would have voted for the gay marriage ban if it had been on the ballot in Florida.

I wish it were because that would be one thing I would have voted for.

I am pissed that they passed the increase in minimum wage. It seems that people just do not understand inflation.

[Hazard]

They don't. It's just the poor people are like "Oh shit, we be gettin' mo money." without any concept of economics.