PROPOSITION 8

The passage of Proposition 8 is generating a lot of post-election protesting around the county. I understand the fury of the gay community. Having a majority forcefully apply their own beliefs onto you is never an enjoyable experience.

Everyone should be able to enjoy all of their civil rights, and no group should be particularly catered to - neither gay, straight, atheist, nor religious.

But San Francisco lefties cheered when citizens were forbidden to own a firearm. They’re quite comfortable with taking away rights, and have a long history of doing it.

They’ll take your weapons, because they don’t like them. They’ll limit your property rights, because they don’t like the way you wish to use it. They’ll take your money, because they want to give it to someone else.

California is one of the most regulated places in America, and it’s been that way for years. It should be taboo for anyone to suggest that your rights be regulated, let alone vote for such a thing. In California, (and other places of course) it's standard practice. But if you give the government a big enough sword, eventually it will cut you too.

Creating an environment in which rights are no longer something solid... something off-limits... is a very dangerous game. They simply lost their own game this time around.

Stings, doesn’t it?

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."

Ayn Rand

And now I see.