This whole “right to vote” thing is a new NOM meme. Correct me if I’m wrong, but different states have different ways of voting amendments into their constitutions. Some states, like Iowa, make it harder to have their constitutions changed at the whim of the public. It seems like NOM is less interested in voting to “protect marriage™” than changing the way states legislate based on their personal agendas.

Oh, it’s part of the process of moving of goalposts and moving down the political pyramid as the anti-marriage side loses its arguments in each state.

Phase 1: gay people are immoralists who want special privileges that will destroy The Christian Family

Phase 2: those judges are judicial activists who don’t ‘get it’ that Western Civilization is at stake

Phase 3: the state legislature and governor have been bullied, blackmailed, conned, are themselves gay, or are delusional Liberals full of atheist mind poison

Phase 4: the people of State/Country X have fallen away from The One True God and will be overrun and enslaved by brownskinned Muslims as they contracept and abort themselves into extinction.

The “let the people vote” stage is most intense at stages 3 but often begins in stage 2. But it’s also magical thinking: so far the anti-marriage side hasn’t lost a marriage referendum. (In part because Massachusetts and New York haven’t had any.)

They will lose a popular referendum in 2012 in California. But so far the lack of losses is something they can cling to as rationale for hope now that no respectable court will accept their theory anymore. Elected politicians are treating them as nuisances because they all know the trend lines show that legalization is going to have popular majorities in favor everywhere that matters in the next 10-15 years. Major churches are turning cold to them.

It gets worse: I hadn’t (and few people outside it had) realized what a problem the RCC in particular has in the form of the amount of gay men in the clergy ranks. From Italy there’s a sense lately that some sort of implosion is in the making, has become inevitable in the foreseeable future. The Vatican is in a bind: liberalizing the rules undoes in essence the re-orthodoxification that JPII and Benedict have tried to accomplish. Tightening enforcement or purges might collapse the RCC as an organization in the West (and maybe elsewhere). And doing nothing means that the average congregants continue to walk out the door at an unbearable rate.

After all marriage is one man, one woman, FOR LIFE!! (“let no man put asunder…….”)

Indeed that’s the sort amendment to tack onto proposals like prop8.

If all it were about is suffrage, there would have been no need for sit-ins at “whites only” lunch counters.

So I would think that they would not hesitate to show up to a cause they support – one-man-one-woman marriage.

And on the flip side, this is why I always take special notice whenever I see Black Queer voices raised, especially in a religious setting, because I know first hand the pain it brings to have your own “brothers and sisters” turn on you.

And I wasn’t sure if I should say something, but I was wondering where the black folks were too.

That lady with the accent who felt under attack because she was breast feeding in public looked black Hispanic. Puerto Rican or Cuban, but she was it.

You’re right. No one of color representing.
I’ve always suspected that Brian Brown doesn’t really know any black people except H. Jackson. And I’m sure that’s enough for him.

I might wonder if some black folks might have taken issue with the analogy to what these rallies are to civil rights. Folks sure enough lashed gay folks for it, even though there is actual legitimate parallels to point to, oh like discrimination and systemic bigotry and SEGREGATION.

Chris Buttars of the LDS was a new low in doing so. But hey, whipping up hysteria is what NOM is trying to do, right?

The African-American Civil Rights Movement is considered to have stretched from 1955 to 1968.

In 1968, Jackson was 15 years old, attending an almost-all-white private high school where he was “the black kid at Country Day who stayed in the houses of wealthy white people.”

I’m sure that Jackson has experienced discrimination first hand, but I am certain that he never ever had to fight for his right to vote.