Which minorities' rights are we going to vote to take away next?

[Chovexani]

Hey, tyranny of the majority is legal now. The CA Constitution* now has an asterisk next to it.

*Subject to approval by bigots.

Who's next?

[MNDemNY]

1. The CA Constitution is flawed. Too much democracy.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Lets go after old folk - they voted most heavily for Prop 8

And if we can also target the Mormons at the same time I'll be much happier.

[MountainLaurel]

4. Works for me n/t

[bluedawg12]

9. We know our enemies well and where our work is to be done and how.

Remember well this day. What goes around comes around.

Karma is a bitch. :grr:

[nichomachus]

19. Hey, I'm an old folk -- so are most of my friends

We all voted against it.

[Hepburn]

23. **ahem**

What exactly do you mean by "older?"

This 60-year-old Calif DUer voted against that bullshit prop! :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Well, as a Caucasian woman married to a Bi-racial man

as hyperbolic as it sounds, I feel my marriage could be jeopardized.

[Chovexani]

5. And why not, lots of the same bigots would be against your marriage too

I am sick to my STOMACH. I was going to stand with my friend when she got married in the fall and she was so scared all last week and last night. I am not looking forward to that phone call today, she's going to be inconsolable. :banghead:

[DarkTirade]

6. Its been done before in the US.

Thankfully in that instance, Loving won. Literally and figuratively.

[pup_ajax]

7. unfortunately ...

I agree KitchenWitch ... this starts the "slippery slope" to removing all those rights not approved by a slim majority.
And I don't think we can look to the U.S. Supreme Court to currently make the right decision either. :(

[Jamastiene]

18. Slipper slope is right.

Very well said. And welcome to DU. :hi:

[jgraz]

8. Easy choice: let's kick out the Mormons.

After all, didn't they try to redefine the traditional view of marriage?

[Cronus Protagonist]

13. I don't think they should have the right to vote in CA

I'd support a ballot initiative to that effect.

[jgraz]

14. I don't think they should have the right to eat in California

But that's just me...

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Go after their tax exemption.

You open up a Book of Mormon (or anything else they publish) and it says "Copyright the Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints".

Shouldn't a corporation be paying taxes?

[jgraz]

25. Why isn't AG Jerry Brown pursuing this?

We should all be calling him asking for a review of the tax exemption of the Mormon and Catholic churches.

[gaspee]

10. I say we start with

individual churches. How about we start with individual megachurches, then the Mormons, then the 7th Day Adventists, then the Southern Baptists, then maybe we can work our way through each sect until we have them all.

Bastards

[bluedawg12]

12. No money for bigot politicians who remain silent or oppose civil rights!

Remember well this day. What goes around comes around.

Karma is a bitch. :grr:

[jgraz]

21. You mean like Barack Obama?

:hide:

[tbyg52]

28. No need to hide from *me*, at least....!

The SCOTUS announcement sure is overshadowing this (nauseating) decision, isn't it....? :grr:

[bluedawg12]

11. That's an excellent question. Just what human rights can't the majority take away?

Something for everyone to think about.

Remember well this day. What goes around comes around.

Karma is a bitch. :grr:

[tbyg52]

29. Anything's fair game in CA, apparently.

The trouble, IMHO, is people who don't have the empathy to understand that next it could be them. Or who think that they'll always be in the majority.

[AntiFascist]

15. Realistically, the bigots may start going after illegal aliens next....

and this already has pissed off some in the Latino community, where groups representing Latinos have filed amicus briefs against Prop 8.

[Jamastiene]

17. Watch the empire fall. There will be no one left to stand up if we ALL don't stand up now.

In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up. -Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free

Rec #5 and :kick:

[keepCAblue]

20. Mormons and Catholics

they organized and funded the whole prop 8 travesty.

[jberryhill]

22. Pedestrians /nt

[NorthCarolina]

24. Initiate a Proposition to revoke Tax Exempt Status...retroactively...for CA Churches

since they've become politicized anyway...plus CA can use the added revenue. Would seem to be a great Proposition to add to the 2010 ballot.

[AntiFascist]

26. My partner thinks this is a good idea as well...

or least revoke tax exempt status on businesses and real estate owned by churches, which there are sizeable numbers within the state.

[kenny blankenship]

27. Oh it'll stop there. They're done picking on people.

They'll continue to attack gay people of course, but other folk need not worry about their rights too much.

They only need ONE whipping boy, and now they have that covered for sure. Plus, if they were to expand their attacks to other groups besides gays, they'd start to lose allies in their attacks on us.

They're hateful shits but they're too expert in organizing hate to do something foolish: they instinctually understand the value of keeping the scapegoat isolated. We'll be on our own. As usual.

[IndianaGreen]

30. Let's start with the Mormons

Give LDS a taste of their own medicine.

[FatDave]

31. Republicans. (nt)

[Creideiki]

35. Do that and we'll have the rightwing takeover of the Democrat Party we've seen

over the last few years.

[SarahB]

32. Who else's civil rights are going to be held up by a vote?

I don't know what's wrong with this country. So much ignorance.

[BR_Parkway]

33. Mormon's rights to ride bicycles? Seems like it would only affect

a narrow minority, and hey, they've got other forms of transportation, so what they heck....

[beyurslf]

34. I say we take away straight people's right to divorce. After all, it is the true threat

to the sanctity of marriage.