Whittling Down the Primrose Path
Not surprising, Texans decided that we need a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Not surprising, but disappointing. I guess I roll with a uniquely liberal crowd, because I forget how ultra conservative the rest of my state is. I’m also a little perturbed that, at least to me, voting day popped up out of nowhere and I didn’t even know what issues were on the table until yesterday morning. Do you have to focus that much energy on governmental processes to be aware or was I not paying attention again? The news is on, typically, every morning as I get ready for work. I breeze through the Quick paper during reading time. Am I that unaware or are they deliberately not promoting voting day to the general public purposefully so that only those that “they” want to vote will be able to?
I don’t like to buy into conspiracy theories, so I’ll just chalk it up to me being a bad citizen. Politics flies so far off of my radar until I hear about it the day of. I would have like to have voted, there were at least a few issues that I felt like I was fairly informed on and/or at least wanted to make my voice heard, but I was caught unawares. No excuse really, I could have found my polling place during the course of my, ahem, busy work day and gone after work to vote. So not all “their” fault, I was lazy. Heh, now-a-days if I can’t get it sent right to my RSS reader I feel fairly inconvenienced.
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The only frustration I have about not keeping a TV in the house is the fact that I don't know when it snows or when to vote. While I'm not the least bit shocked that Texas voted to ban gay marriage, I'm still disappointed in the ignorance that I'm often surrounded by. A friend at work told me not to forget to vote on gay marriage. I knew what he meant, and it saddened me.
There’s a great cartoon out there, with a stogy old woman knocking on some man’s door with a petition to “save marriage”. The man says, “Oh! So, you’re going to stop divorce, adultery, and abuse?! Wonderful!” The woman says, “No, no, we’re just trying to prevent Certain people who love each other from lifetime committed relationships.”
Posted by: x2 | November 9, 2005 07:32 PM