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callie_chan) wrote2004-11-03 04:43 pm
callie_chan) wrote2004-11-03 04:43 pm
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My faith in my state and in my country has been set back today more severely than ever before in my life.
Bush isn't even the biggest part of it; while I'm not thrilled about his getting back in office, I really don't think he's Armageddon personified. He may make this country worse, and I voted for Kerry expressly because that's what I'm afraid of, but he's not going to outright ruin us. He's an idiot and a warmonger, but he's just one man.
But the anti-gay marriage laws. Every single one of them passed.
To put it another way, the voting majority of eleven states, including my own, are ignorant, bigoted bastards.
I just can't believe it. It makes me absolutely sick with rage; I'm one of those people who always tries to help and defend their friends, and I have friends who are gay. And with this, I'm forced to watch them be persecuted and I can't protect them at all, because now it's not just legal, it's the law.
I'm going to find some way to fight this. There has to be something I can do. I don't know what, and I don't know how or when, but there absolutely HAS to be something.
Cuddle party in comments.
-Callisto
Bush isn't even the biggest part of it; while I'm not thrilled about his getting back in office, I really don't think he's Armageddon personified. He may make this country worse, and I voted for Kerry expressly because that's what I'm afraid of, but he's not going to outright ruin us. He's an idiot and a warmonger, but he's just one man.
But the anti-gay marriage laws. Every single one of them passed.
To put it another way, the voting majority of eleven states, including my own, are ignorant, bigoted bastards.
I just can't believe it. It makes me absolutely sick with rage; I'm one of those people who always tries to help and defend their friends, and I have friends who are gay. And with this, I'm forced to watch them be persecuted and I can't protect them at all, because now it's not just legal, it's the law.
I'm going to find some way to fight this. There has to be something I can do. I don't know what, and I don't know how or when, but there absolutely HAS to be something.
Cuddle party in comments.
-Callisto
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The First Amendment not only covers freedom of speech, but also freedom of religion. As long as at least one religion recognizes same-sex marriage, and given a literal reading of the First Amendment, all of those laws are unconstitutional.
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