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The values of caring, compassion, and community are strong in Minnesota and include not placing hurdles before eligible voters such as the disabled, seniors, students and troops serving overseas.
Voter identification is only one way fraud can occur. There are never any guarantees against fraud. From the viewpoint of fear, no guarantees are enough.
Love cannot be legislated. Sexual orientation is no more a choice than gender, skin color or ethnicity. We must have respect for all people regardless of who they are or whom they love.
We must be cautiously aware of our dualistic thinking. It’s defined as the pattern of knowing most things by comparison and labels or judgments concluding one thing is good and the other less good or bad, right or wrong, black or white, gay or straight, for me or against me, in or out, up or down.
It is this kind of thinking that leads to racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, religious imperialism and prejudices of all kinds. Non-dualistic thinking presumes one has mastered dualistic clarity and at the same time also discovers dualistic thinking is insufficient for the really big issues in life such as love, freedom, suffering, death, and God.
We must be hyper-vigilant. Ethical sensitivity is lost when splitting or distancing occurs. Constitutions are not drafted to be instruments of prejudices but to protect the rights and freedom of every unique individual of our state. The high cost of implementation of these two amendments in terms of scarce resources and the prejudices they promote is unconscionable or even unscrupulous.
Vote no to both constitutional amendments.
Your View
October 31, 2012
Your View: Both amendments deserve no votes
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