Okay … now what do you do?

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Think about it for a while.

Ever since the advent of Ronald Reagan I’ve been loathe to vote for any Republican. As far as I’m concerned the Republican Party had turned into and still is the single greatest threat to our democracy and freedoms bar nothing foreign or domestic (although I gotta say the Dems keep showing signs of catching up).

And I mean that in the literal sense.

When Republican Marion Milne broke with her Republican Party buddies to vote for civil unions back in 2000 I knew a mere phone call wasn’t enough. My thanks had to be meaningful and palpable … so I did what I never ever do … I voted for Republican Milne.

Some issues are that important.

So what are YOU going to do to express your thanks to those who bucked the party trends and voted to make sure more families have access to legal marriage?

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6 thoughts on “Okay … now what do you do?”

  1. The D.C. Council unanimously voted yesterday to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere, joining a growing number of states to loosen restrictions on the unions.

    (D.C. Council Votes To Recognize Gay Nuptials Elsewhere, Washington Post, 04/08/09)

    Actually it was only a preliminary vote, but DC has proven itself quite progressive in social policies. They’re even getting ready to pass their own strong families by extending marriage law.

    One major stumbling block is the unfortunate fact that the residents of DC are also subjects of the pinheads in the federal government.

    That’ll be an interesting one to watch.

  2. contemplating this for a couple weeks now. If the election were today, I would vote for Kevin Mullin. Not because I agree with him 99% of the time, or even like him, but he did risk his seat to do the right thing, and because I think that if there’s even a perception that legislators get voted out because they voted yes, that is bad in the long run and will come back to bite us the next time we have a moral issue before the legislature. This decision will be a lot harder for me when I know who is running against him…

  4. I’ll thank them, but that’s the extent of it. It doesn’t change the fact that I’m philosophically opposed to almost everything else they do. One socially-conscious vote certainly doesn’t get em off the hook, in my book. Perhaps if it were the single most important issue to me over all others, I might feel differently, but probably not.

  5. I am not upset with the republicans who voted no becuse I expect that. The democrats who voted no really disappointed me. I was going to have a very difficult time with my rep Jeff Young who is good on most issues but orginally voted against same sex marriage. Thankfully he changed his vote at the very end so I will be able to vote for him. If he hadn’t voted yes I don’t think I could bring myself to vote republican so I would have written a name in or left the line blank.  

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