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Willow (the_willow) wrote,
@ 2008-05-15 18:12:00

Current mood:	bouncy
Entry tags:	#queer issues: q is for queer, about the world, socio-political

California Here They Come...
And other made up lyrics :)

"The California Supreme Court has engaged in the worst kind of judicial activism today, abandoning its role as an objective interpreter of the law and instead legislating from the bench," said Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues for the group Concerned Women for America, in a written statement.

Ok, y'know what I don't get? I don't get that. Since when has voting for something that oppresses the minority ever really worked? How does the oppressed minority, get the non oppressed majority to favour them in passing a bill?

Aren't the Supreme Courts, isn't the court system, setting precedents one of the three balanced prong of America's governing system?

And 'abandoning its role as an objective interpreter of the law' ??? How does it get more objective than saying; people are people, these things do not make this group of people, less than people, so we're going to treat them like PEOPLE!

And this? 'We know that it's in the best interest of children to be raised with a mother and a father.' Does this mean they're ok with single women having abortions? Since the child won't grow up with a mother and a father? Because I sure don't hear that argument in the midst of all the pro and anti.

I mean, last I looked they'd renamed late term abortions as partial birth as if they were getting marketing ideas from the director of the SAW movies.

So can a single woman get an abortion and be in the right in their eyes if she says 'There will be no father. This would be a radical and deplorable experiment in child raising!'

Also, are they coming to take children away from Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents, Cousins & In-Laws, because those aren't 'a mother and a father' households?

Then again they say 'To use children as guinea pigs in radical San Francisco-style social experimentation is deplorable.' So maybe they will. Maybe these anti equal marriage folk are models overflowing with the milk of human kindness, in a balanced and seemingly blessed marriage with their opposite sex partner and everything is perfect except for their horrid childlessness.

Oh wait. Milk of human kindness includes compassion.

*looks at foster care system*

*looks at orphanages full of abandoned aids babies*

*looks at gay couples who've been together 30 and 40 yrs*

Yeah... I'm not seeing any compassion.

*toots a horn* Queers Marrying Queers EVERYWHERE. Yay California!

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	kdorian 2008-05-15 09:01 pm UTC (link)
	"Judicial Activism" is nothing but a code phrase for "Judges making rulings we don't approve of" (Reply to this)

pandorasblog
2008-05-16 04:54 am UTC (link)

I find it fascinating how they narrow the issue down to "Won't Someone Please Think Of The Children!" It's very convenient for people to reduce this to what they know is a feared stereotype in the minds of many members of the public (gay people with children), and thus obscure the fact that gay people are fighting for basic legal rights everyone else has, like being able to legally safeguard your partner in the event of your death, or make medical decisions for them. I mean, it was unconstitutional to bar gay marriage and to my (admittedly foreign) eyes, California isn't overstepping its bounds or being non-neutral by granting normal rights to people who have previously been wrongly excluded.

Also, I really hate how people who claim to be on the side of "the children" take every chance they get to bash non-traditional families and act like they're an infestation to be eradicated rather than helping people to make the most of their lives and get support. It's the State with the big stick.

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