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Nov. 15th, 2008 05:24 pm A few interesting articles I found on TIME.com today while procrastinating:
What Happens If You're on the Gay "Enemies List"
What happens is that you get boycotted. Sounds like a good, nonviolent, nonintrusive way of protest an unjust law, right? Well, get a load of this:
Meanwhile, lists of donors to Proposition 8, once trumpeted on the Yes on 8 Web site, have been taken down to protect individuals from harassment. "It's really awful," says Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Yes on Proposition 8. "No matter what you think of Proposition 8, we ought to respect people's right to participate in the political process. It strikes me as quite ironic that a group of people who demand tolerance and who claim to be for civil rights are so willing to be intolerant and trample on other people's civil rights."
Sounds all fine and good -- I mean, we don't want our gay rights activists being hypocrites like those wacko feminazis, right? Except that boycotting went on during the civil rights movement in the 1960s as well. And I'm pretty sure this argument was paraded around America as well. And I'm pretty sure we all know how that went down.
Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts
An interesting article focusing on the reasons why the Connecticut Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, namely the sense that gays have been victimized enough to warrant giving them "special rights." Reading the article, I can see how this can backfire -- people don't want to give any group of American citizens any "special rights" or anything they perceive as such, so that might be a reason to shut it down through the vote. (Other possible reasons: inherent fears of the "gay agenda" indoctrinating children, the belief that "acceptance of gay marriage is now mandatory, and the rather controversial assertion that blacks tend to be more homophobic than whites, all cited in a linked article about why Prop 8 passed in California.) But this kind of policy really should be determined through the vote, not the courts. The problem is, while it seems like most Americans don't care one way or another about the issue, you'd assume they'd be in favor of it because it doesn't matter to them. Yet as what happened in California and Arizona and Florida, this isn't the case. The fight for equality will be an uphill battle, to say the least.
The New Liberal Order
A good historical perspective on the Obama election, and how the pendulum of fashionable political ideologies seems to be swinging back to the left now.
Environmentalists Win Big EPA Ruling
A good step toward getting rid of the lie that is "clean coal," and toward an economy based on renewable energy.
Obama and the Myth of the Black Messiah
This is for all of those who need to shut up about the whole "Obamessiah" deal. XD
What Happens If You're on the Gay "Enemies List"
What happens is that you get boycotted. Sounds like a good, nonviolent, nonintrusive way of protest an unjust law, right? Well, get a load of this:
Meanwhile, lists of donors to Proposition 8, once trumpeted on the Yes on 8 Web site, have been taken down to protect individuals from harassment. "It's really awful," says Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Yes on Proposition 8. "No matter what you think of Proposition 8, we ought to respect people's right to participate in the political process. It strikes me as quite ironic that a group of people who demand tolerance and who claim to be for civil rights are so willing to be intolerant and trample on other people's civil rights."
Sounds all fine and good -- I mean, we don't want our gay rights activists being hypocrites like those wacko feminazis, right? Except that boycotting went on during the civil rights movement in the 1960s as well. And I'm pretty sure this argument was paraded around America as well. And I'm pretty sure we all know how that went down.
Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts
An interesting article focusing on the reasons why the Connecticut Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, namely the sense that gays have been victimized enough to warrant giving them "special rights." Reading the article, I can see how this can backfire -- people don't want to give any group of American citizens any "special rights" or anything they perceive as such, so that might be a reason to shut it down through the vote. (Other possible reasons: inherent fears of the "gay agenda" indoctrinating children, the belief that "acceptance of gay marriage is now mandatory, and the rather controversial assertion that blacks tend to be more homophobic than whites, all cited in a linked article about why Prop 8 passed in California.) But this kind of policy really should be determined through the vote, not the courts. The problem is, while it seems like most Americans don't care one way or another about the issue, you'd assume they'd be in favor of it because it doesn't matter to them. Yet as what happened in California and Arizona and Florida, this isn't the case. The fight for equality will be an uphill battle, to say the least.
The New Liberal Order
A good historical perspective on the Obama election, and how the pendulum of fashionable political ideologies seems to be swinging back to the left now.
Environmentalists Win Big EPA Ruling
A good step toward getting rid of the lie that is "clean coal," and toward an economy based on renewable energy.
Obama and the Myth of the Black Messiah
This is for all of those who need to shut up about the whole "Obamessiah" deal. XD
