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“Maine is one of the most secular states in the nation, it’s socially liberal, they had a three-year head start to build their organization and they outspent us two to one. If they can’t win there, it really does tell you the majority of Americans are not on board with this gay marriage thing.” -Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for discrimination Marriage [nyt]

A majority of Americans are not on board with “this gay marriage thing?” Guess what?  I don’t care. The majority of American’s tend to be complete morons when it comes to most issues. And I can live with that because that’s democracy. However, on certain issues they’re just wrong. That quote above might as well say “the majority of Americans aren’t on board with this integration thing” or “aren’t on board with this abolition thing.” My point, is that when it comes to certain moral issues, ie the oppression of certain groups, I don’t really care if the majority of Americans are bigoted, we need to do the right thing. Hopefully the courts will do what’s right.

I guess it can be tricky to decided what’s right and what’s not.  But I think the golden rule is really the way to determine that, and also the declaration of independence “all men are created equal.”  Basic equality is already codified into our law anyway, it’s called the equal protection clause. So I think all these bans on gay marriage are already illegal. There is a guy taking this case to the supreme court, and ironically it’s the same man who represented Bush in Bush v Gore. So hopefully the court will do what’s right so these people can get on with their lives, and we’ll let the bigots make peace with gay marriage on their own time. It’s not fair to the homosexual community to tell them to keep waiting, eventually the bigots will see the light. Fuck that, we can’t sit back and let bigots control our country. Freedom should not include the freedom to oppress.

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