Are People Still Stupid Enough to Argue California’s Voters Should Vote On Minority Rights?
I’m not sure what was more fun: Watching Ted Olson make the media rounds before the Prop 8 trial, after closing arguments and before the ruling, or now — after Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the voter-approved law. It’s not that it’s “easier” for Olson to argue in favor of marriage equality now that he as the court ruling behind him, because it’s been easy all along. As Olson tells Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, this whole stupid notion about the constitutional right to decide who gets to marry is an absolute farce.
The title doesn’t quite get it right – there have been a number of votes in California on minority rights that were quite legitimate: for example, the Unruh Civil Rights Act and its extensions (the addition of more groups deserving to be explicitly listed). These laws forbid discrimination.
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The problem Wallace had with this guy is he kept trying to say “But you’ve been opposed to judicial activism” and the guy was basically explaining to him “Chris, what you think of as judicial activism, isn’t”. He was great, thank goodness he took this case!
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Watchin Wallace and the rest of these conserative lunatics is like arguing with a three year old. Stubborn, infantile, and determined to get his way with zero chance of listening to reason.
I think the frightwing lunatics think that because of the strong ties Olsen and his late wife had with the Bush administration he would simply argue lockstep that Gays are not deserving of the rights that are granted to every other minority group not and subject to majority rule.
Ted Olsen is actually a sane person arguing simply what is actually in/b> the United States constitution. Not arguging what idelogical bigoted scumbags want to be in the constitution…………
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Crazy ass right wingnut conservative retards don’t respond well to civil rights/14th amendmendment aguments. Here’s a clue: they are opposed to civil rights for minorities so they don’t think anything of people voting to take their rights aways.
Instead, ask them whether voters in San Francisco or Berkeley can vote to ban all guns in their cities. Maybe then, the light will go on in these morons’ heads that there are certain constitutional rights beyond the capricious will of the majority.
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@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Please don’t lump Chris Wallace in with conservative lunatics. He’s probably the smartest and fairest person on any news network today. He’s also a registered Democrat.
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In the end, arguing over the Constitution has nothing to do with bigots’ problems with homosexuality, gay marriage, adopting children, etc. The two fundamental issues are these: (1) bigots believe that homosexuality is a choice, and so by their reasoning is not a legitimate reason to extend equal rights to us, and (2) bigots believe in the Bible. Until we can convince them that (1) is utterly invalid and (2) is at best relative, if not utterly invalid, then we are just going to keep going around and around endlessly arguing with these people.
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Californians vote on everything. The legislature doesn’t do anything but collect their paychecks and pass a ton of meaningless, non-binding resolutions. What’s laughingly referred to as a voter guide in the Golden State is usually the size of a phone book and is written in such a way that can only be described as “Lawmaking for Dummies.”
California is America’s experiment in direct democracy.
An experiment that has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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uhm… wrong vid?