I know that feeling - I felt much the same way over NC's gay-marriage amendment. Actually, I was going to originally title this post "After Amendment 1 comes..." (since ours was Am. 1 and theirs, Am. 2) but decided it would take too much explaining.
It's a huge waste of money and sure to be overturned, but this kind of thing is still destructive. This is how politics seems to work. One state does something outlandish, it gets voted down or overturned... and then the next time the state (or the next state over) proposes something similar it's less of a shock. Just look at the way the threat of transvaginal ultrasounds makes the non-transvaginal kind seem almost like reasonable common-ground by comparison. (They're not; I'm not the biggest advocate of abortion rights, and even I find the very concept of presuming a woman wouldn't educate herself in that circumstance insulting in the extreme. But when there's something even worse, they seem more measured.)
Anyway. This is a WTF-worthy moment, to be sure, but it's really not your fault.
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Date: 2012-08-11 05:35 am (UTC)It's a huge waste of money and sure to be overturned, but this kind of thing is still destructive. This is how politics seems to work. One state does something outlandish, it gets voted down or overturned... and then the next time the state (or the next state over) proposes something similar it's less of a shock. Just look at the way the threat of transvaginal ultrasounds makes the non-transvaginal kind seem almost like reasonable common-ground by comparison. (They're not; I'm not the biggest advocate of abortion rights, and even I find the very concept of presuming a woman wouldn't educate herself in that circumstance insulting in the extreme. But when there's something even worse, they seem more measured.)
Anyway. This is a WTF-worthy moment, to be sure, but it's really not your fault.