This Letter To The Editor appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer a few days ago…I am pleased that the Massachusetts state legislature defeated an amendment that would have allowed voters to decide whether to ban same-sex marriage. Massachusetts is the only state in which same-sex marriage is legal.How true that is; I wish Romney would take a few minutes to read this touching and emotionally wrenching account of Don D. Harryman, a gay man trying live his life as a Mormon, before he casts aspersions on a state he once governed but has now apparently “left behind.”
Civil rights issues should never be decided by referendum. Our Constitution guarantees that the will of the majority cannot negate the rights of the minority.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine that was long used to subjugate blacks. The court ruled that anything which was "separate" was inherently unequal. If racial civil rights issues had been turned over to individual state vote, black Americans would likely still be using "colored" bathrooms throughout the South.
Yet Massachusetts' former Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who is now a candidate for the party's presidential nomination, called the state legislature's vote "regrettable."
Long-held prejudices die slowly. As the saying goes, "The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions as his opinions hold him."
William A. Stoddart
Wilmington, DE
And this is truly demented; I’ve never in my life heard of anyone doing anything like that to a pet. If Romney thinks this is an acceptable way to treat a dog, an animal that generally travels well, then he must have been raised on Mars.
Update: Speaking of the dog thing, is it too bad of a pun to say that this story has legs?
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