Proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriage gets first OK in Iowa House

Wtf....

 

This shouldnt be allowed!!!!!!!!!!

 

technically, the federal constitution doesnt support taking away the rights of a minority by vote... it is just not only beginning to be enforced because people are challanging the constitutionality of such (lets call it) assfuckery.

 

What is with this fricking country and giving LGBT rights out for 30 seconds and then bailing out??? AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

---------- Post added 26th Jan 2011 at 05:51 PM ----------

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson

 

thanks for the quote. I am going to save that one for future use.

 

America Is going backwards, At this rate Black people and woman will have no rights again by 2060. I think the feral government needs to step in at get ride of this stupidity once and for all, fuck States Right, the feral government is in charge what they says goes, end of.

 

technically, states rights is a myth, if you consider states rights to be what the right wing considers states rights to be.

states do not have the authority to deny or overrule federal law. that is a core value of the constitutional foundation of the nation. States can have laws that are seperate from federal law, but they cannot have laws that override and contradict federal law.

It is the chocie between the united states of america, or the anarchist states of america.

 

I'm seriously on the verge of becoming an expatriate. This is ridiculous.

Question: Does the Iowa legislature not have anything better to do, given the fact that our country is going down the toilet?

 

They are also busy taking away preschool for children in the state, cutting K-12 education funding, and slashing state university funding (10% decrease last year, a ton more to come this year), all to fight a non-existent budget deficit (we actually have a $300 million surplus, but never mind that...) and fund a corporate tax cut.

They're also all riled up about an abortion clinic that is planning on opening in the state.

And these idiots wonder why all the young people leave the state after getting their education...

 

The U.S. Constitution is a joke. Swaths of sections are ignored on any issues to do with national security and culture.

What happened to the division of church and state?

What happened to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

Canada, UK, and probably other countries has got similarly articles and clauses in their rights charters/bills, and yet you see that their courts interpret them to mean exactly what the word says. In the U.S.? Don't even think about it.

Sometimes Republicans denounce "liberal" judges as activists on the bench. I say FUCK YOU. The conservative judges are the true activists on the bench. The liberals judges just want to argue for the letter of the law, which entitles minorities to equal protection and rights. Whereas the conservatives just ignore the law and use semantics to get round the law. What is that, if not activism.

 

the republican party has to white-wash history... otherwise, they cant pretend to have a leg to stand on.