by UnknownMami on May 27, 2010
Here we go again! I try to stick my head in the sand and ignore politics and current events, but some things are impossible to ignore. I don’t want to write about this stuff! I’d rather be getting my funny on.
You can thank Fox anchorman (former co-anchor at ABC’s 20/20), John Stossel for this post. Recently, Stossel called for an action to repeal the business side of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And I quote:
“It’s time now to repeal that part of the law because private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won’t ever go to a place that’s racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I’ll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.”
Really?! It should be their right to be racist and discriminate? Hmmm, I thought perhaps it was “our” right not to be discriminated against. Apparently, Mr. Stossel believes that in a capitalist nation businesses will do the right thing because it will not serve them financially to discriminate.
Really?! Have we learned nothing from history?
by UnknownMami on May 26, 2009
Right after I posted Hope, I found out that the California Supreme Court upheld the state’s gay-marriage ban. Just when I was feeling hopeful. Ugh. One step forward, two steps back.
I believe in justice for all, not justice for some of us. No more second-class citizens!
It was not until 1948 that the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on interracial marriage. 1948! And the U.S. Supreme Court did not overturn the laws prohibiting interracial marriage until 1967. 1967!
Justice is lagging! It’s too slow.
Discrimination is wrong; it was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
Have we learned nothing from history? Seperate is not equal. Words are important. A civil union is not marriage, if it was it would be called Marriage.
If my daughter is gay, I want her to have the right to marry! If my daughter is not gay, I want her to respect the rights of her gay brothers and sisters.
This will not stand! One day soon, people will be ashamed to have stood for discrimination, for denying law abiding citizens rights.
I would like to thank Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, and Maine for having the decency to recognize that gay people have the right to marry.
