{"id":6657,"date":"2008-11-11T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:12:33","slug":"on-prop-8-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6657","title":{"rendered":"On Prop 8 on Veterans Day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I haven’t had much (if any) time to focus on it since last Tuesday’s election, I just wanted to toss in for now, here on Veterans Day, that I find it hard to believe that many of those vets, to whom we ought a great debt, would have risked their lives to fight to remove<\/i> individual freedom, personal liberties, and hard fought rights<\/i> for any American.<\/p>\n

Thus, what may<\/a> have happened in this state last Tuesday, when voters apparently voted in favor of Prop 8 to remove the right to marriage equality for same-sex couples, is an embarrassment and a reminder of why rights<\/i> should never be put up for popular vote. The U.S. Constitution — and presumably the CA Constitution, which will be amended by this proposition, if it’s allowed to stand — is meant to protect<\/i> and guarantee the rights<\/i> of the minority from the tyranny of the majority.<\/p>\n

Had it been placed on the ballot for a popular vote in the 1800’s, slavery would likely have been approved by the electorate as well. That wouldn’t have made the right to live free of enslavement in these United States any more correct than removing the right for same-sex couples to share all<\/i> of the benefits (whatever they may be) of marriage that every other couple in America has the right to enjoy.<\/p>\n

What a shameful disgrace. It will not stand. But it remains an extraordinary embarrassment that so many still have to go to such lengths in order to guarantee their individual rights and freedoms<\/i> in 2008…particularly after all that we’ve been through in this nation.<\/p>\n

Happy Veterans Day to all. And thank you to all of those who have served. Your sacrifice will not have been in vain.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> Protest rallies against Prop 8 are planned all over the country this Saturday. Please help keep America free by joining one of them in your town, if you can. More details here…<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I haven’t had much (if any) time to focus on it since last Tuesday’s election, I just wanted to toss in for now, here on Veterans Day, that I find it hard to believe that many of those vets, to whom we ought a great debt, would have risked their lives to fight to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,332,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-marriage","category-lgbt","category-rights-and-freedoms","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}