JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR

[rm]

If you think that my equality under the law - MY CIVIL RIGHTS - is legitimately and appropriately the subject of a vote...

If you think that LGBTQ people shouldn't have the right to marry people of their choosing or be protected from things like job and housing discrimination...

GET OUT OF MY LIVING ROOM.

This journal is that living room, and I am not here to entertain you while also begging for crumbs of respect.

Comments

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it boggles my mind that these things are even put to a popular vote. That can only ever lead to tyranny of the majority. (Went searching for the quote, which I thought was from Thomas Jefferson, and found a much more interesting lesson here.) Or at least, the majority that turns out to vote.

Did we commit this sort of idiocy back in the 60s? My Civil Rights Movement history is clearly sadly lacking. Shall have to remedy that.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Funny, my first thought when I saw this OP was "didn't Tocqueville have something to say about this?" (having studied some of his writings) and turns out he was the one to coin the phrase. The more you know. Or remember, anyway.

And I think plebiscites weren't nearly as popular back in the 60s in any case.