Amanda's election opinions!
Although I am of course very disappointed in the presidential election, I am not suprised. What bothers me most is one issue that passed in Montana. Our state constitution is now going to be amended to define marriage between a "man and a woman." Some conservative religious group got enough signatures to get it on the ballot and now it passed (by a larger margin than I would have imagined). When did legislating other people's personal lives become acceptable? My mother approaches me yesterday with this comment "I think so many republicans came to the polls last night to vote about gay marriage, not for the presidential election. They are genuinly afraind of what it would do for our moral values in America." I think she was trying to tell me that we had to draw the line somewhere. This from MY MOTHER. HELLO???? Where the hell does she draw the morality line in her own life? Since straight people (including her) have done so much to preserve the "sanctity" of marriage, it would be a disaster to let other people give it a try. She has tried to argue it from an economic standpoint (the costs of same-sex benefits etc), but I'm not interested in arguing about money when it comes to people's health and well-being. Maybe I'm wrong, and she was just making a comment. She certainly wasn't going to get a rise out of me. My mom rant counld go on for eternity. So could my rant on people's biazzare protection of marriage in general.
On a positive election note....Montana has a Democrat governer. I think Brian Schwitzer was a genius to run with a Republican on his ticket. That even convinced my dad to vote for him!
posted by Amanda and Bernie @ 1:08 AM
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I just found about the marriage ammendment in MT from watching The Daily Show of all things and it disappointed even more so than the election as a whole. Here I was sort of proud of Montana by not electing Bush by a huge margin (57% he got, I think, right?), and that they elected a Democratic governer (even though he's sort of a schmuck, but still)..... and then I come to find out about this. It really, really disappoints me. And the sad thing is, I don't think there's anyone in MT who's willing to stand up and fight it. In the unlikely event of it happening here, there'd be lawsuits, protests, everything... Well, there ARE already lawsuits in Seattle and such... but you get what I'm saying. *sigh*... dammit.
It's all smoke and mirrors. Republicans made gay marriage an issue to draw fire from Iraq.
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