2004-07-16
GAY MARRIAGE
Opponents change tunes as it suits them | An analysis of the Senate vote defeating King George's call for a Constitutional Amendment shows that when the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] was pushed through eight years ago the proponents favored it because DOMA preserved State's Rights to decide on municipal authority on marriage | This go-round, the argument was that Federal law ought to trump states' rights laws |
Proponents further argued this time that passing DOMA then was "flawed" and "unconstitutional" | Won't get any arguement from me on that one |
Legal analyst Joanna Grossman notes that other flawed arguements were similarly raised when legislators wanted to ban divorce [back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries] |
My guess is that one could also look at the laws about racial intermingling, or Miscegenation | However you cut it, bigotry is bigotry, no matter what curtain of self-righteous ire with which one wraps oneself |
For more on the origins of racially motivated hate law, check out Ernst Miller's comments from 27 February 2004 at The Anti-Miscegenation Amendment or check out the story of the Miscegenation Pamphlet at African American Registry ¶ 08:12
Opponents change tunes as it suits them | An analysis of the Senate vote defeating King George's call for a Constitutional Amendment shows that when the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] was pushed through eight years ago the proponents favored it because DOMA preserved State's Rights to decide on municipal authority on marriage | This go-round, the argument was that Federal law ought to trump states' rights laws |
Proponents further argued this time that passing DOMA then was "flawed" and "unconstitutional" | Won't get any arguement from me on that one |
Legal analyst Joanna Grossman notes that other flawed arguements were similarly raised when legislators wanted to ban divorce [back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries] |
My guess is that one could also look at the laws about racial intermingling, or Miscegenation | However you cut it, bigotry is bigotry, no matter what curtain of self-righteous ire with which one wraps oneself |
For more on the origins of racially motivated hate law, check out Ernst Miller's comments from 27 February 2004 at The Anti-Miscegenation Amendment or check out the story of the Miscegenation Pamphlet at African American Registry ¶ 08:12
