R-71: Irony upon absurdity in fight against gay rights
STEVEN BAILEY; Bonney Lake
On the noon news Wednesday, a supporter of the No on R-71 group gave his opinion on the poll results. I was surprised to see that the gentleman was African American. On the same broadcast there was a story about a Louisiana justice of the peace that refused to marry an African American man and a Caucasian woman. Oh, the irony.
In Friday’s News Tribune, there was an editorial saying that gay rights supporters did not win as much as the other side lost. This must be akin to a “moral victory.” The same editorial mentioned King County as a deciding factor in the vote. This reminded me of when a similar law was passed in Oregon. The group that had urged “no special rights” for homosexuals went on television after the vote was approved and said that if the votes from Eugene, Salem and Portland were subtracted, the measure would have failed. Thankfully, King County is still in Washington and the aforementioned cities are still in Oregon. Their residents get to vote and their votes count.
A letter writer on Friday also chimed in to say that the time has come for a federal amendment to ban homosexuality and same sex marriage. Wow. Who will enforce that one?
Once again I am left wondering what people are afraid of and why we cannot all have equal rights and the freedom to marry whomever we want to?
