You know, I seem to remember months ago wondering how in the world Prop 8 wasn’t in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today a San Francisco judge ruled that Prop 8 was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Didn’t see THAT coming.
Just imagine: All we need now is for a pair of same sex anchor babies to get married and the far right’s collective head will explode.
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Because apparently we’re losing sight of this whole “Huddled masses yearning to be free” thing.
We’ve got Arizona going rogue, targeting people who–let’s face it–don’t look like they should be here. There’s a lunatic ex-governor from Alaska who is challenging the male anatomy of the president of the United States because he’s more concerned about, y’know, following his oath to uphold the Constitution with its pesky illegal search-and-seizure laws than he is about allowing states to grill people based on the color of their skin (even though they claim that’s not what they’re doing, except we all know it is.) And now there’s a movement afoot to try and repeal the Fourteenth Amendment so that people who are born here aren’t necessarily Americans, because (so the claims go) people are coming here specifically to pop out children who will become American citizens.
I mean, considering how many people around the world are being taught that America sucks, you’d think we’d be flattered that people would want to come here seeking better lives for themselves.
So if this keeps up, then yeah, let’s just auction off Lady Liberty, because if we’re not going to attend to the principles she represents, then isn’t it kind of false advertising having her there? At the very least, perhaps we should redesign her so that rather than holding aloft a torch, instead she has a middle finger extended to greet those huddled masses yearning to be deported back whence they came.
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