5/18/2008

Battle of rights in Indiana

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/05/indianas-religious-right-plans-to-stoke.html

Here Advance Indiana wrote a story on the California Supreme Court's decision this week gay marriage law. I posted this to their blog.

David Myers said...
In this country everyone has a right to express their own opinions.Everyone has the right to express their idea’s to our state leaders and to support those that comes close to our idea’s. That does not mean that you are wrong and it does not mean that they are wrong.Mitch Daniels state that he would be for a constitution amendment to ban gay marriage. Do you expect him to stand down from his conviction on this subject? I don’t see that happening and I look for him to take the election in November. Why is there such a fuss About this bill anyway? It only gives the citizens of Indiana the right to vote to banned gay marriage. If you were not afraid of this passing on the ballot and the people would their say, there would not be such of a fight on this issue. Don't the citizens of this state have that right?

Advance Indiana said...
David, We're not talking about a simple referencum. We're talking about a mean-spirited amendment, which will write discrimination against a group of persons into Indiana's Bill of Rights. The cavalier attitude you and Gov. Daniels show in stripping away other people's rights is a perfect example of tyranny by the majority. We have a constitution which defines the rights of individuals because our founders knew and feared a tyrannical majority would take away the rights of unpopular minorities when left to their own devices. The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to ensure liberty and freedom for all. To use it as a hammer against any group is simply unacceptable and should be discouraged and fought at all expense.
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I disagree. We are talking mean-spirited when the people of America are banned from voting on such issues. If there was support for gay marriage, they would be running over your selves to get this on the ballot as soon as they could. If laws of this country also gives the right to us, the individual citizens to vote on constitutional issues. The tyrannic is when that vote is taken away.
Besides this, what will the right for gays open up? I know of a few that would not mind having more then one spouse. Would we have that right also?

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