Chuck Norris, that bastion of mediocrity, best buddy to Mike Huckabee, internet phenom, and disgustingly uninformed conservative, has written an article for Townhall.com in support of Proposition 8 that clearly demonstrates, better than anything else, that people who supported the H8 have no idea, none whatsoever, what they are talking about.
The truth is that the great majority of Prop. 8 advocates are not bigots or hatemongers. They are American citizens who are following 5,000 years of human history and the belief of every major people and religion: Marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman. Their pro-Prop. 8 votes weren't intended to deprive any group of its rights; they were safeguarding their honest convictions regarding the boundaries of marriage.
I'll repeat that for the class: apparently, Prop 8 wasn't intended to deprive any group of it's rights. Well, that's comforting!
Join me below the fold for the rest, won't you?
The rather lengthy and gritted-teeth inducing article is meant to denounce the opposition to Prop 8 who have been involved in attacks against little old ladies and nice religious people, and all because they hate democracy
First, there's the obvious inability of the minority to accept the will of the majority. Californians have spoken twice, through the elections in 2000 and 2008. Nearly every county across the state (including Los Angeles County) voted to amend the state constitution in favor of traditional marriage.
Nevertheless, bitter activists simply cannot accept the outcome as being truly reflective of the general public. So they have placed the brainwashing blame upon the crusading and misleading zealotry of those religious villains: the Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and especially Mormons, who allegedly are robbing the rights of American citizens by merely executing their right to vote and standing upon their moral convictions and traditional views.
Ah yes, the oft-invoked and always debunked will of the majority argument, that asserts that it's somehow intrinsically American and Constitutional for a majority to vote on the rights of a minority.
We "bitter activists" must hate America, because we are so bitter we can't accept that a majority of people interested in imposing their idea of "moral convictions and traditional values" on the rest of society.
So, what are we supposed to do now that a group of our fellow citizens have been denied their equal rights, in what some speculate was an illegal and what all know was an Unconstitutional manner?
Live with it, of course.
On Nov. 4, the pro-gay community obviously was flabbergasted that a state that generally leans left actually voted right when it came to holy matrimony. But that's exactly what happened; the majority of Californians -- red, yellow, black and white -- voted to define the margins of marriage as being between one man and one woman. California is the 30th state in our union to amend its constitution in doing so, joining Florida and Arizona in this election. Like it or not, it's the law now. The people have spoken.
Yeah, people. It's the law now. Nothing we can do to change it. I guess we should just all pack it in and go home, because unjust laws have never been overturned, cultural values have never changed, and we should just forget that the march of civil rights is a marathon, not a sprint.
Please.