"[...] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [...] believes that it has an absolutely sure way to know the answers to ultimate social questions. Those who disagree with it are simply wrong, and their views don't matter because they're bad. [...] (I'm referring in particular to its actions regarding 'gay marriage.') Right-wingers can organize and propagandize all they want, but it doesn't get them anywhere. They can persuade the people in Colorado that homosexual activities and relationships shouldn't get specific protection but the Supreme Court will step in and say Proposition 2 is unconstitutional [...]. It seems to me that what leads to tyranny is [...] powerholders who claim that they have a simple scheme that answers all fundamental questions of social life and calls for transformation of all social relations whether people like it or not because if they object they're just stupid and evil." -- Jim Kalb
Meet some "stupid and evil" people who voted in an unscientific (but pretty damned reliable, I'd bet) AOL News poll which was posted today on the AOL log-on screen (of course, the views of these third-of-a-million people will have strictly no effect on what keeps getting rammed down all our throats by our liberal governing elites):
Here's the poll:
WHAT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO SAME-SEX COUPLES?
No legal benefits...........50%
Marriage....................31%
Civil Unions................19%
[I voted for "No legal benefits."]
WHO SHOULD DECIDE THE ISSUE OF [HOMOSEXUAL] MARRIAGE?
"[...] the Massachusetts
"[...] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [...] believes that it has an absolutely sure way to know the answers to ultimate social questions. Those who disagree with it are simply wrong, and their views don't matter because they're bad. [...] (I'm referring in particular to its actions regarding 'gay marriage.') Right-wingers can organize and propagandize all they want, but it doesn't get them anywhere. They can persuade the people in Colorado that homosexual activities and relationships shouldn't get specific protection but the Supreme Court will step in and say Proposition 2 is unconstitutional [...]. It seems to me that what leads to tyranny is [...] powerholders who claim that they have a simple scheme that answers all fundamental questions of social life and calls for transformation of all social relations whether people like it or not because if they object they're just stupid and evil." -- Jim Kalb
Meet some "stupid and evil" people who voted in an unscientific (but pretty damned reliable, I'd bet) AOL News poll which was posted today on the AOL log-on screen (of course, the views of these third-of-a-million people will have strictly no effect on what keeps getting rammed down all our throats by our liberal governing elites):
Here's the poll:
WHAT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO SAME-SEX COUPLES?
No legal benefits...........50%
Marriage....................31%
Civil Unions................19%
[I voted for "No legal benefits."]
WHO SHOULD DECIDE THE ISSUE OF [HOMOSEXUAL] MARRIAGE?
Voters......................61%
Courts......................23%
Lawmakers...................16%
[I voted for "Lawmakers."]
Total Votes: 354,473.
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