Saturday, September 10, 2005
Utter Bullshit
Governor Schwarzenegger is vetoing the bill passed by both the California House and Senate that would legalize same-sex marriage. Governor Schwarzenegger claims that it is the will of the people that this not pass (according to a previous state proposition), and yet there is a fundamental flaw in this line of thought: The United States is a representative democracy, not a popular democracy. If the United States were a popular democracy, Bush would not have been able to have stolen the election as he did in 2000, since he lost the popular vote. The idea that the "majority rules" has never, EVER, been a cornerstone of American democracy. If it were, we'd still be an ass-backwards slave-holding nation that denied women the right to vote. Arnold has committed a grave mistake here by citing a popular-vote initiative as reason for his veto. This is politics at its worst, and a serious blow to a humane and just course of action. No true Christian or humanitarian would stand in the way of two adults in love choosing to commit one's life to each other.
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Am I being inflammatory? Absolutely, but not for the sake of merely being inflammatory. It's become obvious that the most vocal of those participating in the anti-marriage movement got to be listened to by being loud rather than right. It's just time to be loud and right: this is a political civil rights and human dignity issue informed by faith. It's time that people of faith grew a backbone and put down the ridiculous notion that having a backbone has anything to do with discrimating against gays and lesbians. Your rhetoric regarding standing in the way of marriages to wife beaters, polygamists, and incestuous individuals being likened to opposing gay marriage is strawman tactic: they're not parallel comparisons in any form. Again, Christians shouldn't twist faith and love to prop up a malformed "gospel" of fear and hatred, especially by using degrading and irrelevant examples.
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