Posted by Pam Spaulding May 19, 2008 in Uncategorized, Conservatives Sure Are Funny, GLBT, Legal Issues, Bad Ideas, Assholes
According to Town Hall columnist, racism apologist and author Dinesh D’Souza, the advancement of gay rights via the courts is undermining our democracy. I almost refrained from posting this asshattery, but I just couldn’t after reading:
Now the high court of California has made gay marriage into a right that is immune from restriction by the majority of citizens in the state. We already know what California citizens think about gay marriage: they oppose it. A referendum outlawing gay marriage was passed with the support of the state’s voters. More than 60 percent of voters cast their ballots against gay marriage.And since when did the will of the majority become the standard for extending civil rights to a minority group? Oh yes, when the fundies said so. And look at this nonsense:How, then, can a court invalidate the referendum and over-rule the will of the people? Basically through a kind of legal fraud. The court has to pretend that there is a right to gay marriage even though it is nowhere evident in the state constitution.
In the past Democrats have always appreciated courts doing their dirty work when it comes to issues like abortion, pornography, prostitution and gay rights. This way Democrats can advance their permissive agenda without having to take political responsibility for voting against the values of a majority of voters. It’s time to make the Democrats pay for this in the November election.I guess Loving v. Virginia was “dirty work” in his book as well as Brown v. Board of Ed. Go read the rest of that insanity. I just cannot deal with this level of bigotry today.
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Since World War II and the Japanese American concentration camps. The current Right are all in favor of that kind of treatment…
The wingnuts are going to ride this hard gong into the November elections. They’ve lost so much credibility on economic and foreign policy that the only thing they have to go on is bigotry. In 2004 they could at least pretend to be credible, enough to convince people who weren’t paying close attention.
I suspect we are in for one of the nastiest elections in recent memory.
As I’ve said other places, this is why Gov. Arnie vetoed the two bills passed by the California legislature and threw it back to the courts: because it allows the wingnuts to screech about “the will of the people” and “activist judges” even though the will of the people of California (as expressed through their elected representatives) was to allow gay marriage.
He’s not much of a Republican, our Arnie, but he knows where his bread is buttered and he’s happy to be their errand boy.
It may be wishful thinking, but just after the law banning gay marriage passed, the rumor was that people thought a yes vote on it would *legalize* gay marriage, not ban it, and it passed only by mistake.
Time has moved on and being gay has become even more accepted. I don’t believe the fundies can win this one, this time.
It may be wishful thinking, but just after the law banning gay marriage passed, the rumor was that people thought a yes vote on it would *legalize* gay marriage, not ban it, and it passed only by mistake.
Time has moved on and being gay has become even more accepted. I don’t believe the fundies can win this one, this time.
Togolosh nails it!
^^ While projecting their bigotry by grasping at straws to try (and fail) to prove that Democrats are “the real bigots.”
All Democrats are racists because Robert Byrd was in the KKK 60 years ago and is a party leader!! (Seriously, it was great to see him endorse Obama today given his past, but why couldn’t he have done it before his primary?)
Obama hates white people because he’s spent some time in the same building as Jeremiah Wright!!
From P.113-114 of last week’s decision, as found quoted on Calitics:
In other words, how can a court overturn a law enacted through a democratic process? Well gee, what is it higher courts are supposed to be doing?
They’re supposed to be rubber-stamping the decisions of The Decider. It’s not like we have three branches of government with checks and balances written into the Constitution or anything. Duh.
;-)
I’m beyond gleeful that mcc quoted that particular passage of the majority decision. It’s nice to see that someone still understands the purpose of our state and federal judiciary. It’s a source of endless dismay to me that even some state and federal judges are apparently unfamiliar with their own job description.
Well, it depends on the minority in question. Just watch what happens whenever state or federal legislatures try to restrict the civil rights of the minority known as corporate managers. Then the right wing is thrilled to have courts step in and overrule the will of the people.
What kind of jackass writes a book with a title like “The End of Racism,” anyway?
I don’t think Dinesh knows much about civil rights movements: as Bérubé reminds us, this is the guy who asked, “How did King succeed, almost single-handedly, in winning support for his agenda? Why was his Southern opposition virtually silent in making counterarguments?”
I doubt this is going to have much effect on the election. From the POV of the rest of the nation, California’s just wacky like that and what do you expect?
Then there’s the whole Republican governor giving it the thumbs-up thing. Whoops.
Can I just go completely insane here for a moment and mention that “Clown Hall Bigot Eruption” sounds either like a really good band name or a finishing attack from a 1980s Anime movie?
Let’s play the Conservative, Strict Constructionist Game!
Does the state constitution say that gay people cannot get married? No, it does not. Therefore, it’s a right that exists. That’s all this decision says.
All the court has said is that if the legislature overturns the gay-marriage ban, everything’s cool.
For a guy who writes so much about America, you’d think D’Souza would take 10 minutes to find out how it works. But he’s too busy writing books about 9/11 was our fault because we don’t love America like he does.
Fixed it for you. Dinesh was the one saying “if we were more like the Taliban, they wouldn’t attack us”.