Re: Cruz: Opposition To Same-Sex Marriage Will Be 'Front And Center' In 2016 Camp...
What I find hilarious is if some other politician had proposed this a week ago you probably would have opposed it. You are angry that a group of people you find disgusting and who you hate has been given the right to marriage and so you want to fire the judges who did it. And feel free to hit the report button if you like, but I am merely repeating what you shared days ago and it is fair to consider a poster's motivations when he suddenly has an opinion on judicial lifetime appointments when he never really had one before. In fact, had the ruling gone the other way and those nine robed figures declared there was no right to same-sex marriage you would have been very happy and content with that ruling lording over 350 million of us and you would not even be talking about judicial elections. This is about your hatred of gays. Nothing else.
Welcome to America. We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. The Constitution is the will of the people, not a simple majority vote. In our country the rights of the minority are protected from the tyranny of a majority.
The problem with attacking people ad hominem instead of debating the actual points being discussed is that you don't know what a person's motivations are, even if you think you do. You think you know me, but in reality, you don't.
But because you strike me as more sincere and less egocentric than the last poster, I WILL offer you something of a background.
I have always believed exactly as I'm saying in this thread... I have always been of the strong opinion that we shouldn't have an unelected Supreme Court with a life appointment that wields as much power as it does. The opinion started at Bush vs Gore (I voted for Gore), and I've held it ever since.
While I've traditionally been against SSM, it's never been an issue that has been that near and dear to me with the exception of two days ago. For two days in a row, the Supreme Court made decisions on behalf of America that I felt overstepped its bounds. The SSM vote was the last straw. I was incensed, especially after what I read what I perceived as gloating and rubbing it in on the part of a lot of SSM advocates. Some people seemed to be getting more delight out of annoying conservatives than they were about getting justice for the LGBT community, and that set me off.
It felt to me as if a group of people I knew nothing about (LGBT) were selling my country down the river (by going to the Supreme Court) for their own ends and in some part, just to get under people like me's skin, and that angered me. I stepped way out of line and acted out in a way I'm not very proud of.
I was banned from this site for two days. That night, I went out with my girlfriend. She must know me pretty well, but anyway she invited her gay friend to come hang out with us (unbeknownst to me) that night I was banned. Being around a gay guy for several hours in a relaxed setting and seeing that this isn't some abstract concept meant to infuriate conservatives, but rather something that touches human beings in a very sincere way in their lives and that he wasn't at all interested in gloating CHANGED MY MIND about SSM.
For what it's worth, you guys have my blessing anyway, I was wrong about opposing SSM I just frankly didn't know any gay people.
I still don't like the Supreme Court. But, that has nothing to do with you. That really is just a matter of principle, and one that this whole week (SSM ruling included) has once again brought to the forefront.