If any of my three readers happens to live in Texas, here is my recommendation for the nine proposed constitutional amendments:
Vote no on all of them.
Proposition 2, the "protection of marriage" amendment is a no-brainer: this is a naked attempt by cro-magnon bigots to institutionalize second class citizenship for gay Texans. Rick Perry is a big booster of the amendment. That should be enough by itself to vote "no".
Along with the rest of them, these execrable extrusions are the product of one of the least intelligent, least productive, and thoroughly disgusting legislatures that has ever disgraced a state house in this country. Voting no will let them know that maybe things won't all go the way they want.
(Update) I have little hope that Proposition 2 will be defeated. One thing Texas has in ample supply is yahoos and knuckle draggers who like to go howling across the landscape after the goblins that terrify their tiny minds, and the idea that people who are similarly plumbed might share aspirations of recognized legal status with them is their main goblin-du-jour.
And it really doesn't help that the biggest knuckle-dragging yahoo in the state is also the governor.
Posted on October 26, 2005 09:09 PM