Ethics

Good Protest and Bad Protest

By Ed Brayton

Last week's election contained a lot of bad news for those who advocate legal equality for gays and lesbians. California voters passed an amendment to the state's constitution that overturned a state supreme court ruling allowing same-sex marriage. Voters in Florida and Arizona passed similar measures, while Arkansas voters passed a referendum prohibiting gays and lesbians from adopting children.

Those events have prompted a good deal of entirely understandable anger and led to many protests around the country. Many of those protests have been against the Mormon church in Utah, which spent millions of dollars in favor of the California ban amendment, but there are others as well. Unfortunately, some of those protests have gone too far, including here in Michigan.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).