Last Frontier of Hatred
Once again, Vivian Page finds the editorials that capture it very well. The Staunton News Leader puts it thusly:
But there is one remaining Last Frontier of Hatred: It involves homosexual men and lesbian women.
Virginians affirmed that Last Frontier of Hatred on Tuesday when they voted Ballot Issue No. 1 into law. Virginia proved it is ready for another round of hatred such as that it unleashed on black citizens when it affirmed “Massive Resistance” to keep little black boys and girls out of Virginia’s lily-white perfect public schools.
So be it. We will deal with this as we have dealt with all the rest of our sins: Breaking away from the Union, race hatred, Massive Resistance.
But we will be a smaller and more narrow-minded place because of it.
If you’re OK with that, we’re not. The majority of you voted for it. Now go to bed and say your prayers. And pray you are right and Christian and not just hateful and wrong.
I’m pretty confident praying won’t fix that.
(There is, of course, much to be happy about. Democratic control of the House and Senate is a fact (VA may take some time to officially declare, but it will happen - and I’m heading offline now to make sure of that), and as I type this, I see that Rumsfeld is gone. That, of course, is a direct result of Dem control of the legislative branch - he simply can’t bear the idea of being accountable to someone. That is a victory for our troops, our nation, and the world.)
Blacknell.net » Over to you, Harry. says:
[...] This is significant, as Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) has been pushing this bill, too. I’ve been, since I move here, an adamant backer of DC voting rights. Virginia’s recent expression of its apparent inability to respect my basic human rights has given me serious reason to consider moving back into the West End. DC getting voting rights would cinch that. So, c’mon, Harry, get with it. Let’s see how serious Bush is about this whole democracy thing. _uacct = “UA-727906-1″; urchinTracker(); [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Blacknell.net » MLK, Jr. Memorial Groundbreaking says:
[...] President Clinton did, as he always does, deliver a great speech. He looked both to the past and the future, with two things really standing out for me. Putting our moral past in context, Clinton recalled Jefferson’s saying that when he reflected on slavery, he trembled to think that God is just. For me, this brought home some of our own recent moral failures. But ever the optimist about human nature, he went on to say, of Dr. King, “If he were here, he would remind us that the time to do right remains.” [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
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March 25th, 2007 at 8:14 am