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Nice freetagging, asshole
Marriage LAWS have nothing to do with "religion." That's the whole POINT. Maybe you should add a tag of "people who failed highschool civics."
I love too how you idiots think "activist" is some sort of derogatory term. As if it's bad for people to care about what goes on around them and to take steps to participate in their world.
Thanks for the lesson, albeit from an angry place
Thank you for informing me about free tagging. I've only been blogging for a month, and haven't come across this term until your post. Now I know. I also didn't know that by posting my question with these tags could bring out such anger, so I'll watch them in the future.
However, I would have to note that marriage is steeped in religion and unfortunately it's the "religious" right who's leading the fight against it. I've been married here in MA for over a year, and I know and feel the fear and hate that seethes from these zealots. Also since the US Constitution is modelled after Massachusetts' they're afraid that these "activist" judges, who have intepreted the laws correctly, will do so on a national level. This is very disconserting since there is NO evidence that letting gay people marry harms our society in any way, which has been the case here in MA over the past year. They also fail to realize that we do NOT choose to be gay, but instead we are born that way, and people have been since the beggining of man. So why shouldn't we be afford the same rights as heterosexual couples?
Here's some links on the subject
Hate Tactics
Family Faith and Values?
A Man On A Mission Do you believe the govenrment actually funds part of his adgenda!
Eh...
I didn't think I was angry. Just saw the way you were using language and figured you were a bigot. I apologize if this isn't the case. I get sick of groups using inaccurate language (like implying that "activism" involves something illegal or immoral) to bash others, so when I see certain words, I assume they're coming from the groups that coined them and mainly use them.
I'd suggest that you use accurate language if you're wanting to discuss the issue rationally. There's no reason people should fear that judges are activists; in fact, we should hope that all judges actively care about the community. Also, state-sanctioned marriage has nothing to do with religion. Sure, people are trying to bring religion into this, but religious denominations and congregations are already free to accept or denounce whomever they wish, and have been since the beginning of time. Some better words for what's really being discussed here might be equality, civil rights, human rights, families, love...
Phew
Here I thought you were the bigot, with terms like asshole and activist judges! LOL I thought using those terms would actually draw them to take the poll.
Also, point take about using the correct tags. I'll take it as a learning experience, I had the same kind of experiece with email at my first job in the early '90s, my boss flammed me about an email I wrote with some suggestions, unfortunately he replied to all. Needless to say he had to publicly apologize to me, now I always check the reply addresses. So I'll be much more carefull in the future. ;-)
Waitasecond!
I wasn't the one who brought up "activist judges"; I was just commenting on how it's a poor choice of wording.