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[callie_chan]

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

Comments

[gentleman-lech.livejournal.com]

[cuddles]

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.

[bashou.livejournal.com]

Now there's an interesting idea. Except for the fact that the polygamy ban was (and continues to be) upheld despite some religious people's desires.