Prop 8 Nov. 15 Protest

[agzg]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That depends. I'm sure it made national news for reasons beyond sexual orientation.

And I'm glad I missed the national news blurb on this one.

I wish I could find it again, but Googlenews isn't working for me like it usually does.

I think it was out west somewhere. They talked about it on the Shot at Love reunion show.

Which I only watched because... because... no I don't really have an excuse for that one.

[LightBulb]

America is defined by its Constitution. It is not designed to be a theocracy. However, people do take advantage of power to push religious (or allegedly religious) agendas.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by LightBulb

America is defined by its Constitution. It is not designed to be a theocracy.

However, people do take advantage of power to push religious (or allegedly religious) agendas.

@1st line: Maybe. Maybe not. I argue that it isn't overtly designed to be a theocracy, since the founding fathers were allegedly deists. But it covertly may have been designed to be a theocracy or at least a dominant ideologracy () to be applied wherever possible. And the full intent of the framers of the Constitution is always up for discussion.

ETA: The Constitution was written within an historical context so it definitely was influenced by some of the dominant ideologies of that time, just as it contributed to a dominant ideology after it was written. Religious or not. Amendments such as the Thirteenth Amendment represented a shift in a particular dominant ideology (arguably for economic purposes rather than moral purposes).

@2nd line: Definitely.

[a.e.B.O.T.]

I support gay marriage... but this is getting a bit crazy... there is a blacklist in California of all the people that donated towards the ban... this one dude lost his job because of his donation... that is a little extreme, then again, so were the commercials for the ban...