jake williams
28th January 2008, 21:53
First, please excuse me if that has been discussed at any great length before.
This is an issue that's been bothering me, and a quite broad one. The specific case I'm talking about is, I'd like to emphasize, important, but it's by no means the whole issue - it's something far more general I'm talking about.
So I'm not too wordy - it certainly appears that a good majority of the American population, particularly the working population, (and presumably a great deal of other populations) are opposed to gay rights. Now supposing they gain power, how is this dealt with? I see three main categories of possibilities:
Upon achieving power, they would instantly change their position and accept a broad range of rights for gay people; or, possibly, I'm simply incorrect in assuming they would have an opposition to gay rights (at which point I should specify, again, that this is only one example)
Gay rights should simply be disregarded - or the more irrational position, though it seems not entirely uncommon, opposition by the proletariat is moral argument in and of itself
Some other force would check the interests/opinions of working people to protect, in the example, gay peopleWhere do I go with this?
This is an issue that's been bothering me, and a quite broad one. The specific case I'm talking about is, I'd like to emphasize, important, but it's by no means the whole issue - it's something far more general I'm talking about.
So I'm not too wordy - it certainly appears that a good majority of the American population, particularly the working population, (and presumably a great deal of other populations) are opposed to gay rights. Now supposing they gain power, how is this dealt with? I see three main categories of possibilities:
Upon achieving power, they would instantly change their position and accept a broad range of rights for gay people; or, possibly, I'm simply incorrect in assuming they would have an opposition to gay rights (at which point I should specify, again, that this is only one example)
Gay rights should simply be disregarded - or the more irrational position, though it seems not entirely uncommon, opposition by the proletariat is moral argument in and of itself
Some other force would check the interests/opinions of working people to protect, in the example, gay peopleWhere do I go with this?