The Most Important Day of the Year (H-Bomb)
You’ve heard it over and over again and that doesn’t make it any less true. Tomorrow’s election is critical. In addition to the thrilling opportunity to replace wrong minded idealogues with forward thinking progressives, fair minded Virginians are galvanized to vote against writing discrimination into the Constitution by voting NO on ballot choice #1, the so called “Marriage Amendment”. Today’s poll puts public sentiment about the amendment in a statistical dead heat. We must turn out more voters than the opposition or gay marriage and civil unions between same sex couples as well as opposite sex couples will be banned by the Virginia Constitution. The Constitution should never be used to limit our civil rights, only to expand and enforce them.
I hope that you will make a point of getting to your polling place between 6am and 7pm on Tuesday so that you can vote for forward thinking progressives and vote against writing discrimination into the Consitution.
"Civil rights" are positive legal prerogatives -- the right to equal treatment before the law. These are rights shared by all -- there is no one in the United States who does not, or should not, share in them.
Gay and lesbian rights are not special rights in any way. It isn't special to be free from discrimination. It is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship.
The right not to be discriminated against is a commonplace claim we all expect to enjoy under our laws and our founding document, the Constitution. That many struggled and even died to gain these rights makes them even more precious. But it does not make them special, and it does not reserve them only for some, or restrict them from others.
When others gain a civil right, my rights are not reduced in any way. Civil rights are a win/win game -- the more won by others, the stronger the army defending my rights becomes. My rights are not diluted by those my neighbor enjoys -- he or she becomes my ally in defending the rights we share.
The so-called "marriage amendment" to Virginia's Bill of Rights should be defeated. Let us maintain our determination to fight on until all our brothers and sisters enjoy the blessings of liberty and justice.
--Excerpt from "Virginia Is For Lovers", Julian Bond (Chairman, NAACP), October 31, 2006
Vote NO on #1. Say NO to writing discrimination into the Virginia Constitution. Say it Loud! Say it Proud!
I hope that you will make a point of getting to your polling place between 6am and 7pm on Tuesday so that you can vote for forward thinking progressives and vote against writing discrimination into the Consitution.
"Civil rights" are positive legal prerogatives -- the right to equal treatment before the law. These are rights shared by all -- there is no one in the United States who does not, or should not, share in them.
Gay and lesbian rights are not special rights in any way. It isn't special to be free from discrimination. It is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship.
The right not to be discriminated against is a commonplace claim we all expect to enjoy under our laws and our founding document, the Constitution. That many struggled and even died to gain these rights makes them even more precious. But it does not make them special, and it does not reserve them only for some, or restrict them from others.
When others gain a civil right, my rights are not reduced in any way. Civil rights are a win/win game -- the more won by others, the stronger the army defending my rights becomes. My rights are not diluted by those my neighbor enjoys -- he or she becomes my ally in defending the rights we share.
The so-called "marriage amendment" to Virginia's Bill of Rights should be defeated. Let us maintain our determination to fight on until all our brothers and sisters enjoy the blessings of liberty and justice.
--Excerpt from "Virginia Is For Lovers", Julian Bond (Chairman, NAACP), October 31, 2006
Vote NO on #1. Say NO to writing discrimination into the Virginia Constitution. Say it Loud! Say it Proud!
posted by Heather Higgins at 11/06/2006
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