Over at BlueOregon in the comments to a piece that DPO Chairwoman Meredith Wood Smith posted about Democrats "Living Our Values", a Fright-Wing™ nutter using the handle "county" posted within a torrent of misguided B.S. this little gem:

Oregon voters voted one man one woman, and again, the values of the legislature was to overturn the will of the peoples vote.

Which is utter crap. The overwhelming majority of Oregonians in poll after poll (even conservative skewed polls like Riley Reasearch's one from two years) favor civil unions (CUs) which extend equal rights for same-gender couples (and not just Oregon either, but nationally as well I might add). That ignorant folks like "county" buy into scare tactic B.S. about the word "marriage" is why bigoted measures like 36 passed. And while CUs are still separate and unequal (because they do nothing on the Federal level) the overwhelming majority of voters support them. So his/hers conflation of measure 36 and the passage of CU legislation is sophistry writ large.

All that aside, majority rules is not an expression of values. If we used that as the basis alone for what constitutes "values" then we would still "value" and have Jim Crow and anti-miscegenation laws on the books and being enforced. Just because people like "county" hold values which are predicated on discrimination and bigotry does not make it values that Democrats, nor the majority of Oregonians as a whole ascribe too.

Furthermore, within 10 years the majority of Oregonians (and Americans as a whole) will support full marriage rights under the law. Don't believe me? Look at any of the polling and the demographic shift which occurs as older bigoted voters shuffle off their mortal coil and are replaced by younger, less bigoted voters.

The culture war about discriminating against non-heterosexuals is over. The reactionary-right's side lost. The rest of us are just waiting for the corpse to stop twitching as we push forward to make it so that ALL people (regardless of their sexual orientation) are treated equally under the law. Why that value and concept tweaks off people like "county" so much is truly confounding.

BTW, it seems that "county" didn't get the memo... immigrants are the approved boogeyman du jour for this election cycle. "Brown" is the new "pink" ...though I guess it is too hard a task for people like "county" to keep straight (pun noted) who they are supposed to fear and hate from election cycle to election cycle.