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changeyourstars8Feeling much better today, thankfully. Maybe I'll even be able to get some writing done. *gives don't-even-start look to the rainclouds*
Since I couldn't get online last night, Chris and I decided to reconnect with our childhoods (like we ever left. . .) and rent some animated movies. Got Hunchback of Notre Dame-- which I hadn't seen since it was in the theatre-- the sequel, and The Swan Princess, which I've heard good things about but never watched.
Had time to watch Hunchback before it was time for bed. Neat little movie, and at the end of it they played the original version of "Someday". I knew it sounded familiar when I heard it on my Celtic Woman CD, but I had no idea where I might've heard it before. Now I know. :-)
Saw a woman in the donut shop today who I absolutely have to base a character's appearance off of. Dark skin, blue and green mottled shirt, shorts, long black hair, and bright blue eyes. I'm talking neon blue here. I know they had to've been contacts, but it was still cool. :-)
And in the last topic jump of the post, you have to go read this right now. *S*
"I appreciate that you want gay people to have full equal rights, but surely you must agree that the will of the majority should win out and a judge should not be able to overturn it."
What I always ask is, do you think Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (which made racial discrimination in schools illegal nationwide) and Loving vs. Virginia (which made interracial marriage legal nationwide) were wrongly decided? No one ever says yes. But if they did say yes, they'd at least be logically consistent, and we could have an honest debate. As it stands, I don't think anyone who's actually thought the issue through could be in favor of always letting the majority win--except in those two cases when the courts were right to step in which are somehow magically different.
Basically, I don't happen to think my civil rights, or anybody's civil rights, should be subject to a veto if 50-percent-plus-one of the public wakes up one day and decides I shouldn't have them.
Since I couldn't get online last night, Chris and I decided to reconnect with our childhoods (like we ever left. . .) and rent some animated movies. Got Hunchback of Notre Dame-- which I hadn't seen since it was in the theatre-- the sequel, and The Swan Princess, which I've heard good things about but never watched.
Had time to watch Hunchback before it was time for bed. Neat little movie, and at the end of it they played the original version of "Someday". I knew it sounded familiar when I heard it on my Celtic Woman CD, but I had no idea where I might've heard it before. Now I know. :-)
Saw a woman in the donut shop today who I absolutely have to base a character's appearance off of. Dark skin, blue and green mottled shirt, shorts, long black hair, and bright blue eyes. I'm talking neon blue here. I know they had to've been contacts, but it was still cool. :-)
And in the last topic jump of the post, you have to go read this right now. *S*
"I appreciate that you want gay people to have full equal rights, but surely you must agree that the will of the majority should win out and a judge should not be able to overturn it."
What I always ask is, do you think Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (which made racial discrimination in schools illegal nationwide) and Loving vs. Virginia (which made interracial marriage legal nationwide) were wrongly decided? No one ever says yes. But if they did say yes, they'd at least be logically consistent, and we could have an honest debate. As it stands, I don't think anyone who's actually thought the issue through could be in favor of always letting the majority win--except in those two cases when the courts were right to step in which are somehow magically different.
Basically, I don't happen to think my civil rights, or anybody's civil rights, should be subject to a veto if 50-percent-plus-one of the public wakes up one day and decides I shouldn't have them.
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Date: 2006-06-06 10:17 pm (UTC)But that seems to have blown over, thankfully. And I am getting some writing done. *G*