How Un-American...

Some people love to espouse the notion that spreading freedom is one of our American ideals, or that there are people in the world that "hate us for our freedom". What really irks me is that some of those people who most likely believe in that aspect of our culture (especially the latter sentiment voiced by George W. Bush) more than likely voted to make gay marriage illegal in several states including, most notably, California. What I don't understand is how people who actively believe that we should have freedom to do what we choose as long it does not hurt anyone else in the process deny a group of people the freedom to enjoy what everyone else can do (and abuses it on many occasions)?

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC expresses how I feel about this asinine rationale much more eloquently than I can.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I saw that video too -- and I read somewhere else that in Cali it was mostly Mexican Catholics who voted that way. I have no idea how they know that, but...not exactly the bible-thumping southern white people you necessarily picture as someone who would vote against it.
November 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hamster Wheel of the Day

Remember the apocryphal story circulating the news and internet about Clinton staffers performing all sorts of pranks as they left the White House? While people still argue the veracity of that incident, I doubt it reaches the level of pettiness exhibited by President Bush towards President Elect Obama.
Read more

The More Things Change...

Two Saturdays ago, I attended my high school reunion celebrating twenty years since graduation. I initially had reservations about going at first, but I wanted to see my how my high school classmates evolved (and I to them) over the last twenty years; vain curiosity trumped everything else. A little background first: I did not enjoy high school very much. I did not have the clichéd experience some people believe high school to be (on either end of the spectrum). My days in high school were dollops of “good”, heaping tablespoons of “bad”, all on top of a wide base of “meh”. With that in mind, I decided to leave most of my high school experiences (and the people involved) in the past and moved on. This worked for nineteen years until technology and web-based social networking rendered my efforts moot. As for the reunion itself, it had a much smaller number of people I had expected. Out of four hundred or so people in our graduating class, about sixty people showed up for the festivities ...
Read more