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Election Thoughts
Nov. 5th, 2008 07:00 pmWell, that's over. I am working on a larger, Kermit the Frog themed response to the while thing, but I do have a couple of initial thoughts.
One, I am glad that the winner won by a larger enough margin that there is no legitimate cause for complaints - no one "stole the election", no crtitical post election day recounts (yes, we're likely to see them in Missouri and North Carolina, but their outcomes will not change the electoral vote decision one way or the other).
Second, I am very glad that my fellow Commuters (that's the group term for people from Connecticut, dontchaknow) voted down opening up a constitutional convention. The issues that people were pushing as being so critical that they needed a convention just weren't that critical. I don't want to see our state go the way of California with open ballot initiatives. What other people do with their love lives and life-partner decisions makes no difference to me.
If people really want to separate the releigious sacrament of marrage from the legal definition of Civil Union I expect them to also argue that their religious sacraments have no legal bearing whatsoever. If you want our politics out of your sacrament, I want your sacament out of our politics. Hence everyone who was married in a religious insititution should lose their tax benefits, ability to make medical decisions for their religious spouse and so on. I think that would leave![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kriz1818 & mapmakr , ashacat & netcurmudgeon and the Fullers as the only people I know with special legal standing for cohabitation & decision-making. The rest of us would have to go back out and find a justice of the peace, and likely pay some back taxes.
On a similar note, I am saddened that Prop 8 passed in California. I am heartened that demographically speaking the tide is turning towards. In another generation I suspect it just won't matter anymore. Until then, you have my solidarity.
One, I am glad that the winner won by a larger enough margin that there is no legitimate cause for complaints - no one "stole the election", no crtitical post election day recounts (yes, we're likely to see them in Missouri and North Carolina, but their outcomes will not change the electoral vote decision one way or the other).
Second, I am very glad that my fellow Commuters (that's the group term for people from Connecticut, dontchaknow) voted down opening up a constitutional convention. The issues that people were pushing as being so critical that they needed a convention just weren't that critical. I don't want to see our state go the way of California with open ballot initiatives. What other people do with their love lives and life-partner decisions makes no difference to me.
If people really want to separate the releigious sacrament of marrage from the legal definition of Civil Union I expect them to also argue that their religious sacraments have no legal bearing whatsoever. If you want our politics out of your sacrament, I want your sacament out of our politics. Hence everyone who was married in a religious insititution should lose their tax benefits, ability to make medical decisions for their religious spouse and so on. I think that would leave
kriz1818 & mapmakr , ashacat & netcurmudgeon and the Fullers as the only people I know with special legal standing for cohabitation & decision-making. The rest of us would have to go back out and find a justice of the peace, and likely pay some back taxes. On a similar note, I am saddened that Prop 8 passed in California. I am heartened that demographically speaking the tide is turning towards. In another generation I suspect it just won't matter anymore. Until then, you have my solidarity.
