Bottom line, how do people vote against human rights? It's just incomprehensible to me.
Because they do not see it as a right.
Getting allowed to marry the one you love isn't a right? Of course the real answer is that those people feel homosexuals made a "choice" and shouldn't be allowed to dirty the "institution of marriage" on their whims and fancies.
I think it's quite obvious that the people who vote against it don't think it to be a right, yes. That's not my personal opinion - certainly next-of-kin status is a right - but a recognition of reality. You can't win these people over, or at least win them over into not caring, by using the language of rights. Which is a bit of a problem in a country where political discourse is so utterly dominated by liberalism as the U.S - because it means that the language of rights is practically the language of politics.
You know, as much as I loathe you, you've actually hit on a point I've been trying to make here. Few people today are much impressed by cries of "my rights", no matter how impassioned they may be; however, cries of "my
freedom" will always be
en vogue over here.
