When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Monday, February 23, 2004
I read an excellent point-by-point rebuttal of various arguments against gay marriage: Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives. Ater reading, I left a comment to the effect that a lot of men's opposition to gays and gay marriage is based (in my opinion) on what they like to claim is natural and hardwired -- dominance over women. If some men express little desire to dominate women, then how can it be inborn?
Women are still fighting their battles against male domination despite having had had the right to vote since 1920 (Our centennial is coming up in 16 years! I personally didn't get too excited about the country's bicentennial, since I did not feel it included me.)
Speaking of women's rights, just as the City of San Francisco is out in front on gay marriages, so was the city of Rochester, NY out front in women voting. Forty women registered and 15 of them actually voted in 1871, nearly fifty years before the Constitution changed to allow it.
This from [- Rochester history, Susan B. Anthony bio
Funny she was fined and not the city official who allowed them to register.
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On the civil rights front(s)
I read an excellent point-by-point rebuttal of various arguments against gay marriage: Gay Marriage: The Arguments and the Motives. Ater reading, I left a comment to the effect that a lot of men's opposition to gays and gay marriage is based (in my opinion) on what they like to claim is natural and hardwired -- dominance over women. If some men express little desire to dominate women, then how can it be inborn?
Women are still fighting their battles against male domination despite having had had the right to vote since 1920 (Our centennial is coming up in 16 years! I personally didn't get too excited about the country's bicentennial, since I did not feel it included me.)
Speaking of women's rights, just as the City of San Francisco is out in front on gay marriages, so was the city of Rochester, NY out front in women voting. Forty women registered and 15 of them actually voted in 1871, nearly fifty years before the Constitution changed to allow it.
This from [- Rochester history, Susan B. Anthony bio
In her friendly town of Rochester, Susan B. Anthony with her friends Guelma Mc Lean and Hannah Mosher along with a dozen other women registered for the election of 1871. The following day forty other women followed in her footsteps. On election day fifteen of these women including Susan B. succeeded in voting. Susan B. was arrested and found guilty. She was ordered to pay a fine of one-hundred dollars and replied, "May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." The fine remains unpaid to this very day.
Funny she was fined and not the city official who allowed them to register.
Palema
7:20 PM
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