screwed by basic human rights?
Ok, this started as a comment in Ben's blog, and then became too long, so I decided to put it as an entire post.
A thought occured to me last night as I was banging my head against the wall. All of us left-wing-democrat-nutjobs have been saying how great it is that finally we are addressing gay rights and making it a big political issue. I mean, I think its great, let em get married, Thank you Massachucetts judges for having the balls to shove the issue in our faces.
But the effect to the democratic party might have been extremely catstrophic. Think about it. A lot of republicans, moderate democrats, and undecideds are probabaly against the war, and on that issue would like to see bush out of office. The same group likely has misgivings about bush's economic policies as well. However, on social issues (read: gay rights) the majority of the country is still pretty conservative. Even Kerry is against gay marriage. But in order to keep its core and the left side of its base, the democrats have (rightly) opposed anti gay measures. Unfortunatly, this may have alienated many moderates who see the war and the economy as short term issues, but "ethical" issues such as gay marriage as more important long term issues. The media has been reporting that the biggest issue in this election turned out to be "values", which seems to back this argument up.
So, those judges and politicians who put gay rights in the face of the american voters may have seriosuly fucked themselves over. and the republicans played a clever hand by proposing a constitutional ammendment against gay marriage. no democrat could support it, lest he/she lose their support, and thus alienated their moderate support. Thus the issue became not the important things facing our country (war, education, economy), but instead became something that at least to me, shoudlnt even be an issue.
It is scary that the "slippery slope" of gay rights is more threatening to the majority of the country than a fucked up economy, thousands of wasted lives, national securit, and world respect.
Yeah, this is just me talking out of my ass, so take it or leave it.
A thought occured to me last night as I was banging my head against the wall. All of us left-wing-democrat-nutjobs have been saying how great it is that finally we are addressing gay rights and making it a big political issue. I mean, I think its great, let em get married, Thank you Massachucetts judges for having the balls to shove the issue in our faces.
But the effect to the democratic party might have been extremely catstrophic. Think about it. A lot of republicans, moderate democrats, and undecideds are probabaly against the war, and on that issue would like to see bush out of office. The same group likely has misgivings about bush's economic policies as well. However, on social issues (read: gay rights) the majority of the country is still pretty conservative. Even Kerry is against gay marriage. But in order to keep its core and the left side of its base, the democrats have (rightly) opposed anti gay measures. Unfortunatly, this may have alienated many moderates who see the war and the economy as short term issues, but "ethical" issues such as gay marriage as more important long term issues. The media has been reporting that the biggest issue in this election turned out to be "values", which seems to back this argument up.
So, those judges and politicians who put gay rights in the face of the american voters may have seriosuly fucked themselves over. and the republicans played a clever hand by proposing a constitutional ammendment against gay marriage. no democrat could support it, lest he/she lose their support, and thus alienated their moderate support. Thus the issue became not the important things facing our country (war, education, economy), but instead became something that at least to me, shoudlnt even be an issue.
It is scary that the "slippery slope" of gay rights is more threatening to the majority of the country than a fucked up economy, thousands of wasted lives, national securit, and world respect.
Yeah, this is just me talking out of my ass, so take it or leave it.
posted by Unknown | Wednesday, November 03, 2004
1 Comments:
Yeah, I guess this isnt a very novel hypothesis. I just never thought of it this way, and evidently the democrats didnt either.
I forgot to mention in the original post that something like 11 gay marriage proposals lost last night, including one in Oregon. Thats sort of surprising.
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