First the Congress and the President passed a bill that sets new rules for credit card companies; but they also tacked on a rule that gives us the right to carry CONCEALED weapons into our National Parks.
YET ANOTHER hero from our armed services, was told that he was being discharged from the armed forces because, HE IS GAY. Forget the men he commanded who want him back. Forget the medals he earned and the people he saved; he must not be allowed to protect and serve our nation. Why? Because the religious right says so.
Tuesday morning, I stood on the steps of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco, to hear the decision re: Californians Gay and Lesbian couples to call their civil unions MARRIAGE. I was disappointed. While the Court found that the couples who were married already, can remain so; no new couples can marry; because the California State Constitution allows a simple majority of voters to legalize inequality by voting. The US Supreme Court decided in Brown vs. Board of education that, separate but, equal is inherently NOT EQUAL!
Where do these people find the audacity to justify this decision in the first place? They find it in the ignorant masses,that I call my fellow citizens. The ones who value their right to vote, their right to go to church, their right to voice their opinions about guns and abortion. And yet, they don't value my right to disagree with them.
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Travails of an Adjunct Political Science Professor seeking the end to part timers being treated as disposable diapers, the end to the 2/3's super majority in California, the end to stupid people in the news, the right of equality for all to marry, the end to prop 13, the adoption of universal health care in the US, peace, love and the everlasting good memory of Jerry.
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