Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Legislation

1. I think same-sex marriage will eventually be legalized everywhere in the U.S.  I'm not saying that because I'm an avid supporter or because I want to get married.  I'm saying that after having looked at some of the other laws that have been overturned or deemed unconstitutional in the last 100 years:
  • 1920- Women allowed to vote.
  • 1924- All U.S.-born Native Americans granted full citizenship.
  • 1954- Racial segregation in public schools declared unconstitutional.
  • 1967- Interracial marriage legalized.
For any level-headed person, living without any of these rights right now would be unfathomable. Even with how so very recent all of them are.  Our parents were alive when interracial marriage was banned!

People want to say that same-sex marriage would ruin the true foundation and meaning of marriage (or w/e they say) and I'm sure they said the exact same thing when interracial marriage wasn't allowed.  People fight these changes but the changes are made, anyway.  Whether it takes years or decades. 

2. I was looking up laws and stumbled upon a dumb law website.  Here's some laws Texas supposedly has:
  • It's illegal to sell one's eyeball.
  • One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
  • A program has been created that attemps to control the weather...
  • Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use or owning more than 6 dildos.
  • Entire Encylopedia Brittanica is banned because it contains a formula for how to make beer at home.

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