New Jersey governor Chris Christie, saying he’ll veto any bill the state legislature passes to legalize same-sex marriage, saying it should be passed by voter referendum and using a lousy analogy to do it.
Sure, white Southerners would have happily voted to give black people voting rights in the 1960s! Idiot.
There’s a bigger problem here, though: legislators are elected by the people (ostensibly), but now apparently it’s not enough that democratically elected representatives pass bills legalizing same-sex marriage; now the voting electorate has to legitimize it too, as if the general populace should have a say in who gets equal rights and who doesn’t.
Chris Christie: Blacks’ Voting Rights Should Have Been Decided By Southern White Voters: Gothamist
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