I’m not usually politically active, but this seems pretty radical to me.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 |
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Subject: Please help right away — we’ve got to stick together
Dear friend,
Congress is about to vote on amending the U.S. Constitution to deny marriage equality to same-sex couples.
Never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone’s rights. Yet our Senators will vote on this amendment in the next 48 hours.
It’s urgent that we speak up now. This hateful divisiveness has no place in America. Please join me in saying so, at:
http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/
Equality in marriage is the civil rights issue of our generation. We can’t let anyone, or any group, be singled out for discrimination based on who they are or who they love.
Thank you.
5 Comments to I’m not usually politically active, but this seems pretty radical to me.
“Never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone’s rights.”
Actually, yes it has. It was called the 18th Amendment:
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Yes, it was later repealed, but still.
And I’m not arguing for this ban on gay marriage. I think it’s a pathetic attempt by bitter, old, wealthy conservative white men to resist change (the very things that make the GOP go ’round). What’s even worse is that Kerry and Edwards and the Democrats in the Senate are showing no signs that they will attempt to block this Amendment. Election-year politics at its worst. Where’s a loan gunman when you need him?
meh, I probably would have tried to fight the 18th as well.
Election-year politics at its worst.
In-fucking-deed. This whole banning gay marriage thing is really starting to piss me off.
Where’s a loan gunman when you need him?
but then we’d have cheney. *shudder*
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LONE gunman. Not loan.
Heh, I’m retarded.
July 13, 2004