The rightwing dinosaurs continue to be annihilated by the asteroid of progess.
Ahahaha what progress? If there was progress you people wouldn't be fighting this stuff in the courts. It wasn't that long ago that California banned gay marriage with 70% of African Americans voting to ban it. Take a victory lap if you like while I point and laugh.
If it wasn't progress you people wouldn't be losing in court.
Dear
NYcarbineer
1. yes and no, you could also say if it wasn't a legitimate belief supported by citizens of each state,
then why would amendments, legislation like DOMA, and state bills have PASSED that supported
traditional marriage and defense of marriage?
Both sides have valid beliefs.
The Courts are not designed to CHOOSE between beliefs.
Even if Christianity or Buddhism turn out to be true and universal,
You and I and everyone here KNOWS the Courts are NOT supposed to be used to choose one side over the other.
The system is NOT designed to decide POLITICAL beliefs for people but YES this is ABUSED.
It is STILL wrongful and in violation of both the Fourteenth Amendment and Civil Rights Act
to discriminate by creed.
2. BTW using Courts as the criteria for whether someone's beliefs are valid or not is DANGEROUS.
By that, slavery would still be considered the social norm and "right morals since it was upheld by courts"
Dangerous justification.
The beliefs belong to people, and until we reach a consensus, we are abusing govt
especially courts as "divine right to rule" in favor of one belief over another.
This is not Constitutional to me, and I am a prochoice progressive Democrat and I CAN SEE THAT.
I am not that special, I am just more fed up with paying for the cost of these conflicts.
Other people who have money to lose on funding onesided campaigns don't see the damages caused.
But in my community, where we are losing the national historic Astrodome, two national historic Freed Slave and Civil Rights landmarks of APV within Freedmen's Town, and also on the brink of losing public radio due to debts that aren't being taken seriously; we can't afford to spend millions on political religious wars that could be solved by mediation, and save those resources to save our history and access to democratic free speech and ability to assemble through sites like the Dome and the Freedmen's Town campus plans for this purpose.
We can't afford this fight, over beliefs that should be treated and included equally,
and thus will mean endless legal and legislative battle we can't afford while mediation is free,
while we are losing our historic and environment national treasures due to "lack of funds" and divided public
attention that is diverted to issues of equal beliefs that should be resolved by people directly per state.
NYcarbineer
the most DISTURBING thing to me about your argument
is your support of Constitutional equal protections seems to depend on
WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH SOMEONE'S BELIEF
How dangerous is that?
You and others go so far as to only see Courts and Congress as legit when they back YOUR beliefs,
but when they don't, when legislatures support otherwise then it's "unconstitutional and needs correction"
but when OTHER beliefs are the ones left out and arguing "it's unconstitutional and needs correction"
suddenly the Courts are right and decide what beliefs to mandate for the rest of the nation?
That is NEVER constitutional in my book.
When it comes to beliefs, whether I agree or not, or the majority of a party does,
if people have other beliefs those are still protected by law and can't be forced to change by govt.
I don't even have to AGREE with that belief to defend it equally.
It is disturbing enough when the right gets onesided, as with defending Christian beliefs
but attacking Muslims, but when the LEFT gets onesided and does'nt see that, it's "intolerable"
as well as unconstitutional. At least the Conservatives ACCEPT constitutional rebukes when
confronted on the Muslim issues. I have YET to see my fellow liberal Democrats accept
rebuke that this proselytizing agenda through courts and legislatures is ANTI CHOICE
and violated Separation of Church and State to mandate beliefs on a national scale through govt.
You can use the media to influence people as long as it is based on truth and full and accurate information.
but not abuse govt to establish one set of beliefs as mandatory for the nation.
If you abuse govt and/or party to conspire to violate equal civil rights of others
that is organized racketeering. If media is abused to spread false information,
such as brainwashing people into believing it is constitutional to establish political beliefs
instead of teaching this is "discriminating unlawfully by CREED" that can be part of collusion.
At this point I could see a class action lawsuit against Democrats for colluding to discriminate
against Christians, similar to anti-semitism that has been a historical trend.
This has really gone too far. I will start preparing to go on a political strike against my own party,
and hope that since I am only one person, who is absolutely harmless in that I believe in consent
not coercion, nobody will see me as a threat worth attacking
but will listen to the objections and the solutions which are the real point.
I didn't want to have to go on hunger strike, but just setting up all the fundraising programs for campus plans and democratizing by district, schools and parties, so that I could go on strike later and hand these plans over to candidates and leaders willing to take them over if I don't survive my own protest, might still publicize sustainable solutions we should be funding instead of circular arguments over beliefs that will keep deadlocking because both sides have equal right to defend their beliefs. In preparing to lose my arguments, I could find the people to form a winning team behind the right ideas I would be striking for anyway!
I've had enough
NYcarbineer
I am aggrieved for the Democrats who have turned the whole platform anti-choice and don't see it.
Where is the inclusion of diversity? The equal respect and protection of all creeds from discrimination?
Sad sad sad. If I go on hunger strike in June, depending if people get it right before the Courts screw up anything else, what will I be losing anyway if the country is already giving up choice and liberty to govt to decide for us? what kind of country would have ability to have free speech and freedom of choice and religion, but then sell it to the highest corporate bidders to mandate through paid political parties and govt lobbyists?
Why would we pay to enslave ourselves to corporate politics
when our laws protect our free speech, right to petition to redress our own grievances and write out own local laws and pass legislation by consensus that protects all beliefs? We have the ability to buy our own land, schools, and even run our own radio stations and incorporate our own businesses and small cities!
Why isn't that enough to establish and exercise our own beliefs democratically?
Why this need to force political beliefs through govt to mandate for the entire nation?
Sorry but I don't recognize this and don't believe in it.
I will ask for help to either buyout my own district to set up Constitutional process and structures
as my beliefs, or else go on strike and refuse to live under some gestapo govt I don't even recognize.
Not me, not what I believe. You can't make live under a system
that violates my beliefs in govt by consent, Constitutional due process, and equal protection of the laws.