I know many have commented about Ted Olson doing this to sabotage marriage equality movement and momentum that has taken place. I take the man at his words as he is teamed up with David Boies.
More after the jump,
I also have noticed that many LGBT people and supporters believe this is the wrong time for a SCOTUS case involving marriage equality. I disagree 100% and here is why;
#1 I believe this needs to be challenged now as Ted Olson even says Civil Rights should never be put up to a popular vote. It doesn't matter what the make-up of the court looks like. This is one of the founding principles of our government.
#2 Both Boies and Olson explain the scenario of Loving vs. Virginia, Just because the majority views something unpopular doesn't make discrimination valid. He also cites that over 70% of the population were against inter racial marriage.
#3 Even if the opposition wants to inject religious reasons for denying marriage equality, they will be laughed out of court as there is a separation of Church and State. Even though Olson doesn't say 'sin' he does say what people don't like.
#4 They both directly invoke the 14th amendment and make a good argument in less than 5 minutes in this video.
#5 The direct argument Ted Olson makes using the word 'citizen' to the same bull shit the religious right applies to the word 'marriage'.
I have been saying for a long time, when the issue of marriage equality is put up to an honest debate, this is a winning issue. All the Man on Dog garbage will go to the wayside as all it is is psycho babble.
And I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of hearing,'we have to wait because people aren't ready to accept LGcept LGBT citizens as equals, or the make-up of the court doesn't look good for our side. When we have the truth on our side, the time is now. The court would have to do a lot of dancing to rule against us unless we use the same Bull Shit arguments like the Attorney General's Office did when arguing prop H8 in California.
It is not natural nor does it fit in religion.If it was meant to be there one only be one sex. As ir is it takes two sexes to produce a family. Wake up and smell the roses. You are not Gay you are queer.
Michael Bailes
After wiping the spray of tea off my computer screen from laughing at the spelling and grammar, I realized it had been quite a while since I got hate mail. The nutty bile seems to ebb and flow towards my me and my husband, so I wondered what had set off this nutter. I must be doing something right if I'm getting under the religious fanatics' skin... again.
I sometimes judge the impact I'm having on the world by the amount of hate mail or threats I get. It's a way of making something that could be disturbing into something positive.
Plus, they make for a great scrapbook. Or a lovely decoupage table.
I've always been surprised by people's need to contact others directly and threaten, demean, or attack them. It seems like a lot of effort for little return- but maybe I'm just lazy.
This latest missive is by far one of the more tame ones I've received. During and after the airport fiasco in Fort Lauderdale, we got tons of hate mail, both at home and at work- much of it very violent. It peaked again when we helped lead the charge against the former Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, the bigoted Jim Naugle, moving from not only letters, but also phone calls and people coming to our house to threaten us. With my husband's campaign and election, we again got calls and mail, some threatening to bludgeon us, others calling us the "scum of Oakland Park".
So being called a "queer" (which I don't mind- I actually like to identify as that) isn't too big of a deal. And while I'm not a big rose fan (I prefer gladiolas or some other flowers more), I suppose I could take out more time to smell lovely flowers- although that does seem like a somewhat fey hobby, which kind of gnd of goes against the spirit of the email.
And yes, I could get annoyed about the "you need two sexes to be a family" comment, but really, it took so long to decipher the sentences that I forgot to get angry.
So I'm left wondering if this is just a random act of stupidity (well, I'm not really wondering about that- it seems to be a given) or the beginning of another spike in crazy emails, calls, and letters.
But heck, I must be doing something right if someone took the time out of their day to write me. They could have spent that time smelling the roses, so I feel rather important.
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