California is going to have another vote on whether to ban gay marriage by constitutional amendment in order to forestall what any thinking person realizes is an inevitability.
Here's some quotes from a NYTimes article called
Donation to Same-Sex Marriage Foes Brings Boycott Calls
A hotel owner's $125,000 donation to support a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in the state has become a flashpoint, with opponents calling for a boycott of two of his hotels and supporters highlighting the donation in a fund-raising letter.The hotelier, Doug Manchester, donated the money to support the collection of signatures to qualify the initiative, which would amend the state's Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, for the November ballot.
The quotes:
Mr. Manchester said Wednesday: "This really is a free-speech, First Amendment issue. While I respect everyone's choice of partner, my Catholic faith and longtime affiliation with the Catholic Church leads me to believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman."
He has a perfect right to express his beliefs. He is using his economic position to prosyletize that belief. What's stupid is his not realizing that there is no basis, outside of his self-admitted lifelong indoctrination by a specific religious group, for his belief to be public enforced on others who do not share that belief. Truth or fact is not based on a democratic majority. Its quite possible for a majority to be errant. The whole point in constitutional rights is protect minorities from such things. So if he is going to use economic power to supplant others beliefs, then he must accept the boycott measure as a reasonable response.
On Tuesday, Brian S. Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage California, a group supporting Proposition 8, sent out an e-mail message warning of the boycott, calling it a "bullying" tactic.
Who are the bullies in the first place? Anti-gay marriage people are assuming they the authority to tell other people what is or is not moral and to deny other people the same rights they have granted themselves or to deny use of specific words to describe the nature of their bondings. In a constitutional democracy, mere majority consensus does not automatically create authority.
What is stupid about it is that they can't see that all their commotion is pointless and will fail when their children simply accept as familiar and boring what they are trying desperately to prevent out of their fear of the unknown.
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