Should efforts and resources be spent towards getting marriage equality accepted at the ballot box? Do you think there will be repercussions in the form of more restrictive legislation following a Supreme Court win similar to what happened following Roe v Wade?
Both individuals suggest that the vote of the people trumps all else, which is not the way it works in the United States, no matter how much these homophobes wish it did. We live in a Constitutional Democracy. Here is what is meant by a Constitutional Democracy
Tomorrow, get out and vote! Support progressive candidates and help turn Pennsylvania around.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette uses the recent decision surrounding affirmative action to suggest that a voter approved ban on same-sex marriage should be upheld. He cites: “As Justice Kennedy recently explained, (in the affirmative action case) “[i]t is demeaning to the democratic process to presume that the voters are not capable of deciding an issue of this sensitivity on decent and rational grounds,” Schuette wrote in his appeal of a ruling in March by[Read More…]
No one, and I mean no one, is telling progressive voters that we need to ding in hard and start fighting and don’t stop fighting until the 2016 election is over. We need to see progressive wins in 2014 and a again in 2016, or we may just count our democracy as dead.
In 2014, one of the most important things we can all do to move LGBTQ Rights forward is to be willing to contemplate and adjust our own perspectives and try to see things with another viewpoint. How are our own rules and expectations constructed from our own individual experiences and what are our own blind spots to accepting and promoting diversity and respect for others who are different from us?
Contemporary efforts like voter suppression and rigid immigration controls are about preserving what a privileged class has and realizes it is losing. The work of the NRA to attack all gun laws is designed to help perpetuate fear of white men with guns, and at the same time impede fighting real gun violence, which is often within minority communities.
Synopsis of the cases and what the Court will be deciding regarding marriage equality. … the reality is that the Court doesn’t grant rights. The court may rule that a law is unconstitutional, and thereby remove the law which was denying people rights. Laws create and limit rights. Courts determine if those laws are constitutional or not, and the US Supreme Court decides if lower courts have made correct or incorrect decision regarding the constitutionality of a law.
In the race for Pittsburgh’s Mayor, Bill Peduto has increased his lead over former Auditor General Jack Wagner from two points on April 22nd to seven points late last week, according to a poll released by Keystone Analytics®.
Sanford’s win shows us that the voting public hasn’t changed a whole lot in some places (and more places rather than fewer). If we are going to see a continued path towards fairness, Equality and respect for everyone, we must continue to put candidates forward who are not Republican-lite, and work our butts off pre-election to make sure we get progressives elected.