bridgetwnpeddler

Couple remainders from the election.

1. Gay Marriage. This is inevitable people. Regardless of your thoughts on it Loving v. Virginia will virtually guarantee this will come to pass. From Anna Quindlen's Newsweek article this week:

"Here are the facts of the case, and if they leave you breathless with disbelief and rage it only proves Kushner's point, and mine: Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving got married in Washington, D.C. They went home to Virginia, there to be rousted out of their bed one night by police and charged with a felony. The felony was that Mildred was black and Richard was white and they were therefore guilty of miscegenation, which is a $10 word for bigotry. Virginia, like a number of other states, considered cross-racial matrimony a crime at the time.

It turned out that it wasn't just the state that hated the idea of black people marrying white people. God was onboard, too, according to the trial judge, who wrote, "The fact that He separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." But the Supreme Court, which eventually heard the case, passed over the Almighty for the Constitution, which luckily has an equal-protection clause. "Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man," the unanimous opinion striking down the couple's conviction said, "fundamental to our very existence and survival.""

IMHO this falls under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment and this will be very difficult to overturn via any subsequent amendment. The tide of history rolls forward, bigotry and ignorance are on the losing end of that tide.

2. Please oh please let Republicans choose someone like Sen DeMint from SC to lead their party out of the wilderness. Perhaps one more shot at people like him will finally crush their role in the party so that the rest of us can have our party back from the anti intellectual, anti science, pro bigot dumbass wing of magical thinking evangelicals.

Please...