Quote of the Day: Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal
Feb 09, 2011
“I’m not going to put to a vote of the people anybody’s constitutional rights. Because if I can do that to gay people, I can do it to Catholics, I can do it to Methodists, I can do it to Baptists, I can do it to blacks, I can do it to Hispanics. If I can put to a vote of the people, people’s constitutional rights, then you may be popular today – old white guys like us might be popular today and our rights will be fine – but someday the baby boom will be gone and there won’t be enough old white guys left to protect us from the tyranny of the majority.”
-Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, justifying his blockage of a constitutional amendment to revoke the ability to legally marry from same-sex couples in Iowa
If the world included more old white guys like you, it would be a better, more peaceful and inclusive place.
Well once again I’m proud of IOWA, my home ground!!!
. . . and here’s the Des Moines Register, the main paper of the state, on the issue:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110209/OPINION03/102090326/0/SPORTS08/?odyssey=nav|head