Get Off Your Ass & Vote Tomorrow!

I’m fairly certain that in most places in the United States tomorrow there will be a voting booth open. Oh, sure, there’s nothing big to vote on like the Presidency, but there’s still important decisions to make.

Heck, here in Maine, we’re voting on the right to discriminate against perceived homosexuals. Oh, I’ll be voting “no” against repealing the law that protects gays and lesbians from discrimination, but the important thing is that people get out and make an educated vote for whatever their cause. Just because you think whatever’s on the ballot doesn’t affect you, just because you think it’s not as important as last year’s election, doesn’t mean you don’t have a responsibility to vote.

Think of those countries we’re bringing democracy to and how they’ve risked their lives to go to the polls and cast their vote and make their voice count. The likelihood of a polling place here in the states, in your community, getting bombed tomorrow is probably less than the likelihood of a whole day passing in the entire Middle East without a bomb or attack of some sort. Be a role model. Don’t take for granted the very thing our soldiers are dying to give other people!

You know, people died in this country so we could have the right to vote too. Maybe we shouldn’t disrespect their sacrifice for our personal freedoms.

tags: vote, politics, Gay Rights, Discrimination, Freedoms

2 comments

1. on November 9, 2005 at 10:35 am

   Tamara said:

   So glad to hear that Maine voters upheld the law against discrimination! All in all it was a good day of elections (great news in Virginia governor’s race, among others). Ohio voters rejected election reforms that were probably sorely needed, but I think the nuances of election law are difficult to grasp.

   Anyway, I was glad to hear that your new state did the right thing, and I knew you would be, too!

2. on November 9, 2005 at 11:32 am

   n. mallory said:

   Yes, I was quite pleased. However, the people, who were campaigning to repeal the law to protect against gay discrimination, are focusing on a constitutional ammendment to make gay marriage illegal, so there’s a new fight starting to brew.

   Basically we won the battle, but the war is just heating up.

   But, you’re right, elections went fairly well all over yesterday — we won’t talk about Texas.

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