Martin Dupras

I am dismayed, no mesmerized, no f*cked-off disappointed that California Proposition 8 got through.

For those who don’t know, it’s the new amendment that invalidates the previously acknowledged right for gay marriage.

It beggars belief.

First of all: if the rights were given in the first place, it’s because legally, morally and socially they were recognised as valid.

Second: it’s puzzling that a simple majority vote would be enough to reverse a law. What if, for the sake of argument, a state voted on an amendment to ban Heavy Metal? That the majority doesn’t like it should not be the sole governance of the law. I’ll let you imagine all the horrors that would follow.

But third: it is repugnant to think that revoking already granted rights can be done so easily. Even more so when one thinks that “Proposition 8″ is by definition an act of exclusion: it denies to a certain group the same rights as the collectivity.

Isn’t that, from an ethical point of view, the same rationale behind every war that America has waged on other nations?