I'm not surprised, of course.

[apocalypsos]

Maine shoots down gay-marriage law

I still don't understand who in the hell would think putting the civil rights of the minority up to a vote is a good fucking idea. It doesn't work. It never works, because it requires belief in an entity that history has proved quite plainly doesn't exist. It's like deciding your best option for home security is a ginormous werewolf in your front yard. It may be a good plan, but good luck finding a fucking werewolf to do it. You'll probably find it at the dollar store on a shelf next to a majority of voters willing to be give a shit about other people just this one time.

Must be nice, living in a world where the majority of the population can't be counted on to be douchebags at any given time.

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Why is it that I only have any desire to work on Heroine Addiction for about five minutes far too early in the morning?

I just don't want to type anymore. Can't I just hook my brain up to the computer with a USB cable and let the story fall out of my brain into the file? It's in there, seriously, it just refuses to come out. Stupid story.

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I still haven't seen the last two episodes of Merlin. And I didn't watch V last night. And I haven't seen Gossip Girl or Heroes all season long. Urgh, television junkie fail.

Maybe I'll luck out and Santa will bring me a TiVo, although I doubt it, because Santa's kind of broke this year and besides, as much as it would probably help me from slacking off on my television-watching duties, I have manuscripts to finish and shit to write and I already waste quite enough time on television, thank you very much. HMPH.

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You know what would be really nice? If looking at the classifieds didn't make me want to bang my head off things and move someplace else. Because a.) I can't afford to anyway, and b.) I don't want to move anywhere for a job that doesn't pay well and might not last.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Re: Maine...I have no words (that could be printed in a family-friendly newspaper).

[twelve-pastels.livejournal.com]

It's state law. We had to put it to a vote. It's the second time it's been defeated by a hair, and I blame it entirely on misinformation.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand who in the hell would think putting the civil rights of the minority up to a vote is a good fucking idea.

This. I mean, part of the reason we require government is to, wait for it, protect the rights of minorities. Helloooo!

Of course, Congress has voted for minority rights, but in theory they're higher-quality, better-informed, more objective individuals, which is why they're in government. I'm not sure that's always true, but it's obviously been true more than once.

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

Of course, Congress has voted for minority rights, but in theory they're higher-quality, better-informed, more objective individuals, which is why they're in government. I'm not sure that's always true, but it's obviously been true more than once.

Used to be true. Hasn't been for a long time, I fear. Just look at Boehner, Coburn, Bachmann, Lieberman, Nelson and Wilson. -_-;;

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. :-/

[lavenderfrost.livejournal.com]

People started wanting Congresspeople who were JUST LIKE THEM OMG, and the whole thing pretty much went down the tubes. Populism is well and good, but Average Joes do NOT belong on Capitol Hill. You want someone educated who knows what the fuck they're doing. -_-;;

[kirana-44.livejournal.com]

Me and my boyfriend talked a lot last night about how stupid it was to put that to the vote. We both voted, even though it was a long ass drive to get where we are registered to vote, just because we wanted to keep the stupid no gay marriage people from winning.

It would have gone the other way if not for all the ads on TV and radio saying that if you allow gay marriage they're going to teach 5 year olds about gay sex in school. It was so stupid.

[sylk.livejournal.com]

I have no more faith in humanity.

That is probably the only thing I can say with regards to Maine that does not involve copious use of the word fuck.

Why Maine...

[theliel.livejournal.com]

Because Maine's constitution required/allowed it.
Just like CA and WA's ballot proposal system generates a shit fuck ton of bad ideas (Ohio's prop 2 ferx).

So, there you go. Legislating it doesn't work, because people attempt to ballot it directly, and using the courts is OMG wrong, which means that those against gay marrage are basically just gigantic fuckwits that need to stfu because they just like controlling other people.

a comment i posted elsewhere, pasted in its incoherence

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I believe the rhetoric we've had for the past few years about "activist judges" was intended to prejudice the more easily led against further progressive judges and rulings and make them basically think the opposite of where you stand, i.e., "Why shouldn't the people decide what rights everyone has?" which is a pretty disturbing notion if you ask me, what with pitting one group against another rather than striving for equal footing, but obviously that fits very neatly with the agenda of some....

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

a good fucking idea. It doesn't work.
As far as I know, and admittedly I don't know much more than the wiki page can tell me, I can only think of it working once. Although it was something as massive as voting rights for Aboriginal Australians and it was very much pushed and supported by the sitting government so I'm not shocked it passed.
Support seems to be a deciding factor in referendums, the republican referendum failed everywhere but the suburb I lived in because of the weird indecisive crap that was tacked on to it.

[dreamiflame.livejournal.com]

We didn't want to put it to a vote.

Wait, hold on, let me rephrase that. I, and the supporters of the marriage law, the ones who called our representatives in our legislature to say things like "For god's sake, pass the fucker into law!" didn't want to vote on it.

So the people against it went out and collected signatures. A whole lot of fucking signatures. And then we had to vote on it, because the idiots against it forced a people's veto onto the ballot. I love democracy, I just wish it didn't work so well against people as for people.