Massachusetts politicians diss the people

Posted on June 18, 2007

Referendum on homosexual marriage blocked. The people are too ignorant and bigoted to be allowed a say, apparently

Excerpt:

If there’s one thing Beacon Hill Democrats can’t stand, it’s democracy. What happened to all their phony polls on the gay marriage question? I thought the gays were going to win, and that, as one story put it right, “political support in Massachusetts is swinging firmly behind gay marriage.”

So why did the homosexuals spend more than a million bucks making sure they wouldn’t have to win that fight at the ballot box in November 2008? A few years ago this same crowd was hissing that government had no right to say who could get hitched to whom. Now that they’re calling the shots, they love having the government push everybody else around

So now 17,000 homosexuals won’t have their “marriages” invalidated - not that anyone was planning to do that anyway, but never mind the facts. But what about the 170,000 people who signed the petitions to give the people the right to make the decision to . . . change, shall we say, the traditional meaning of marriage? I guess those 170,000 just aren’t Beautiful People.

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4 Responses to “Massachusetts politicians diss the people”

Lex on June 18th, 2007 9:44 am

Couple of things I want to point out:

1.) The majority shouldn’t be able to vote on whether a minority should be granted rights.
If they voted like that in the past, interracial couples would never have been allowed to marry.

2.) The will of the people was served in this vote. Last November, the people of Massachusetts
voted in a bunch of pro-gay marriage legisators and a pro-gay marriage governor.
Lord Nazh on June 18th, 2007 12:44 pm

So basically Lex, you’re saying the will of the minority trumps the majority?

Or did a majority vote in the pro-gay legislators? In which case, that would mean a majority vote has taken away the right of the minority to vote on this legislation.
Bobby on June 18th, 2007 12:53 pm

I couldn’t care less what the Bible-thumping Christians think about gay marriage. It’s a right homosexuals could have, and that you’re in the majority doesn’t make you any less wrong. This is how the American system works, thank God. If majority always ruled, we’d be living in a Christian theocracy and I’d be living in Amsterdam.
NewtownMark on June 18th, 2007 3:31 pm

Bobby,

You really should tone down the title throwing and learn some history about the slow but steady move of the American Revolutionary War process. In the end, it was the majority that created America.