Here is a great article I just read in the Seattle times.
It is nice to see another state passing legislation to properly define and ensure the rights of it's citizens. What I find especially heartening in this article is that they include the issue of gay rights in the Civil Right's movement. It is interesting to consider that women's suffrage was considered part of the Women's Rights Movement. And legislation for the LGBT community is commonly referred to as Gay Rights. But the movement that that gave minorities the right to vote among many other things is named the Civil Rights Movement and not the Minority Rights Movement or something similar.
In reality all of these are part of a/the Civil Rights Movement though the movement that holds the name is/was much larger and all encompassing than the rest. The name is really neither here nor there, just interesting to note.
I hope in the next few years the state that I live in will take steps to legalising same sex marriage. There should be marriage equality for all.
ReplyDeleteOne issue in my state is that the legislatures hands are tied. There is a constitutional amendment here I believe that recognises marriage as a union between a man and a woman. So at present the legislature can't give marriage equality to all and the constitutional amendment would have to be overturned by I presume a ballot measure.
-Ler
We must remember prohibition. We had to make an amendment to overturn an amendment but in the end justice was reached.
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