Reply #24: We Protect Unpopular Minorities Because It's The Right Thing to Do

[AndyTiedye]

We aren't fighting hard to protect the right to bear arms because
that right is not in any danger. The rights of gay people are,
because they are passing laws all over the country to deprive gay
people of their rights, even basic rights to enter into contracts
that all other adults enjoy.

Protecting unpopular minorities from the tyranny of the majority
is one of those things that Democrats do, because it is right.
You seem to be arguing that we are too weak to do that anymore.
If that is true, we are lost anyway.

What would you have had us do, join the Repubs in amending the
Constitution to ban gay marriage? Do you really think it would
end there once we start on the path of making people second-class
citizens? Next they'll want to lack them all up for "sodomy" or
perhaps they'll just stone them all to death as some of the most
rabid Fundies have advocated. After that, who will they come for
next?

By the time we got through selling out our consituancies
we would have lost not only our integrity but also most of our voters.

We're "getting our ass kicked" because they own the news and the
voting machinez.