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MD: judge rules gender identity law can be rolled back by voters

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 22:56:36 PM EDT


Again, here we see the unyielding hatred of the fundies toward LGBTs. Rights that we have won are not permanent when they can continuously fight to put those civil rights up for a public vote. A judge in Montgomery County Maryland judge ruled that a new law protecting transfolk (blocked from implementation by a petition effort by a group called the "Citizens for Responsible Government") may be placed on the ballot. (WaPo):
Circuit Court Judge Robert A. Greenberg sided with opponents of the law, ruling that advocates for gay and transgender rights missed a critical deadline for challenging the county Board of Elections, which certified a petition to put the law to a vote on the November ballot.

Greenberg agreed with a key element of the advocates' argument: Elections officials miscalculated the number of signatures required for a referendum on the measure, he said. But Greenberg concluded that the challenge was filed "too late."

Jonathan Shurberg, an attorney for Equality Maryland, the gay and transgender rights group, said he intends to appeal the decision "vigorously and promptly." "We were right," he said. "The question is one of timeliness, and we don't believe the judge rightly applied the law."

The Alliance Defense Fund hailed the court ruling, claiming it's a victory for voters.
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys representing the citizen voter coalition Maryland Citizens for Responsible Government helped secure a favorable ruling from a Maryland court Thursday, giving 900,000 Montgomery County voters their right to be heard on their petition against a "gender identity" bill. Groups not wanting the will of the people to be heard on the bill attempted to disenfranchise and silence hundreds of thousands of county voters.

"Like all American citizens, Maryland voters have the right to have their voices count," said ADF Litigation Counsel Amy Smith. "Justice was served in today's ruling, as more than enough valid signatures were collected for the petitions, and the plaintiffs clearly failed to file their suit before the statute of limitations expired."

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If this country was run by majority rule,
  Al Gore would have been president in January of 2001.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

Fortunately,Montgomery county is pretty liberal
Though growing more conservative, I don't think the voters will overturn this.  

deadlines
This ballot measure will probably pass given the history of LGBT rights and voters.  This is of course why the other side always expands the conflict.

If the deadline was missed, someone should be questioning Equality MD, other Maryland based LGBT rights groups, and all of the national organizations in DC. However, I suspect that each will say that local issues, even in their backyard, aren't their bailiwick. That is sad because so many of the advances for trans people have come at the local level.


The deadline was secret
The only people told about it were the petitioners.

Repeated phonecalls to the electoral authorities did not obtain an answer as to when the first batch of votes would be verified. No objection could be lodged until they were. Verification was only confirmed after the deadline had passed.


There is no situation so complex it can't get even worse


[ Parent ]
Dirty (insert extreme insult here)
Is that legal? It's certainly unethical and a clear abuse of the spirit and intention of democratic systems.

[ Parent ]
Sexuality, Rights and Gabriel García Márquez

I love it that you mention "rights that we have won are not permanent [...]"

Roe vs. Wade is constantly in jeopardy. And, sometimes, I think the current administration simply flosses their teeth with fibers of the shredded constitution. Never won, simply granted, all rights have their time "at risk" and can be taken away at future dates. (The Japanese were granted citizenship then interned, no?)

I can't remember it fully, but there's this beautiful line in Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." It's the part where the one crazy dude dies and his spirit / sentiment is reincarnated in a later generation's son. The grandmother says something like: You think time passes, but it doesn't. You find yourself back at the beginning, and it seems time moves in a circle.

Very apropos.

- Twanna



Twanna A. Hines
Get down with the funky brown
www.funkybrownchick.com


I hope they can win the appeal
The day of the deadline seems pretty arbitrary.

How depressing
I was taught in high school civics that our system is supposed to protect minority rights from the tyranny of the majority. They lied, dammit.

Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls


I'd like to know when "all the people" are going to get to vote on the rights
of the dominionists to impose their phony cult on the rest of us. . .and when are "all the people" going to get the opportunity to vote on the rights of conservatives? It seems to me that we should be allowed to amend constitutions in the same manner they use them to attack us - and certainly use referendum to call into question their rights to engage in deception and manipulation.

After all, we wouldn't want to "disenfranchise" 900,000 voters who should have a say in the rights of corrupt Republicans.


This highlights why federal employment nondiscrimination
This highlights why federal employment nondicscrimination and public accommadation rights are so important.

However - Jesse Ventura had it right when he schooled Pat Buchanan on civil rights:

"VENTURA: Let me throw something out. You can't take a civil rights issue and put it up to a vote. If you did that, we might still have slavery if it was allowed to be voted on.

BUCHANAN: Jesse what about -

(CROSS TALK)

VENTURA: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) civil rights and let people vote on it.

BUCHANAN: Well, Jesse, what are you talking about? The Civil Rights Act 1964 was voted on. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 voted on by congress.

The Open Housing Act of 1968 was done by LBJ, first went to demonstrations by Martin Luther King. These were done by representatives -

VENTURA: Exactly.

BUCHANAN: Not by these un-elected judges.

VENTURA: Well, and not by populace itself, Pat. If the elected officials stand up for what's right and do what's right for civil rights like they did back then, I fully agree with you. But you can't put a civil rights issue on the general ballot in a state and let people vote on it because if do you that, in the southern states before you can bet, they would have voted to continue slavery."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/...


The lack of civics education
  The one area in schools that the right is glad to have disappear.  The removal of Representative Republic and replaced by Democracy which now has gotten the definition of Majority Rule.

 The lack of understanding the Balance of Power and Checks and Balances between the three branches of government.  

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


[ Parent ]
human nature
Regardless of the amount of education, it is likely that folks will always want to use the rules of the game to get outcomes that they favor. This is just venue shopping to get the answer that they want. Our side, and every other successful organization or social movement does it also.  

[ Parent ]
Hearing the voters worked out so very well
with interracial marriage, with public transportation, with drinking fountains, with schools, with slavery, with sodomy laws,

One hunderd and fifty years after Abigail Adams agitated for a vote for women, the United States finally "Gave" women the vote.

We are unwilling to wait that long.....


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


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