An uneasy feeling in my gut....
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osodecanelaSo much going on.
I'm so behind on computerized paperwork it isn't funny. I feel as though I'm drowning in it.
I have several people who are important to me who're facing major life changing circumstances and I simply have to watch from the sidelines. I cannot affect much change for them. Really all I can do is hold them tenderly in my thoughts and meditations and hope for the best. What will be, will be.
Tomorrow Amendment 1 goes to the polls in North Carolina, the first of several measures around the country which will affect my civil rights. "Mine?", you may think to yourself. Weaver isn't in North Carolina.
True.
However, they will be voting on civil rights nonetheless, and that, no matter how it turns out, is at it's essence, wrong. A popular vote on anyone's civil rights is just bloody wrong.
It will be coming to the polls this November in Maine, trying to undo what the Nat'l Organization for Marriage and their cronies did when they successfully overturned the law that Maine's legislature passed, and their then governor signed 2 years ago. It looks even like it may go our way this time, which is good, but still it's putting civil rights to a popular vote and that leaves a sinking feeling in my gut like none other.
A popular vote. With all the campaign lies that will be publicly broadcast. People will be vilified. It is likely also to be on the ballot in Maryland and we'll know within the month about Washington state as well.
Time to go home, and curl up in a little ball next to my husband.
I'm so behind on computerized paperwork it isn't funny. I feel as though I'm drowning in it.
I have several people who are important to me who're facing major life changing circumstances and I simply have to watch from the sidelines. I cannot affect much change for them. Really all I can do is hold them tenderly in my thoughts and meditations and hope for the best. What will be, will be.
Tomorrow Amendment 1 goes to the polls in North Carolina, the first of several measures around the country which will affect my civil rights. "Mine?", you may think to yourself. Weaver isn't in North Carolina.
True.
However, they will be voting on civil rights nonetheless, and that, no matter how it turns out, is at it's essence, wrong. A popular vote on anyone's civil rights is just bloody wrong.
It will be coming to the polls this November in Maine, trying to undo what the Nat'l Organization for Marriage and their cronies did when they successfully overturned the law that Maine's legislature passed, and their then governor signed 2 years ago. It looks even like it may go our way this time, which is good, but still it's putting civil rights to a popular vote and that leaves a sinking feeling in my gut like none other.
A popular vote. With all the campaign lies that will be publicly broadcast. People will be vilified. It is likely also to be on the ballot in Maryland and we'll know within the month about Washington state as well.
Time to go home, and curl up in a little ball next to my husband.
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