I find this post's line of reasoning very interesting and highly convoluted.
--- David Strand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This argument seems highly disingenous. I think the > only people who can make that determination are the > people who live in the city. The city is the > closest > and therefore most repsonsive part of government to > the social, cultural, environmental, and economic > concerns of it's residents. If the residents of the > Minneapolis decide that there is an issue that needs > to be addressed in our community, we need not have > our > local government just sit on it's hands. I'm with you so far..local control belongs in the hands of local authorities as determined by the majority of voters. Good. But then..... > I think of the US Supreme Court ruling that threw out the anti-gay initiative in the state of Colorado that would have forbid localities from including sexual orientation in their local nondiscrimination ordinances. The Court recognized that to deny people the right to advocate for their concerns at the local level was to deny people the right to eventually have their concern or position addressed at the state or federal level. After all "all politics are local!" What? Your arguement here is self defeating. It seems to me that the USSC put itself squarely against "local control" as defined by the majority of voters in Colorado to protect a minority position. What of the (majority of) people who advocated their State representitives for relief from people they do not wish to be associated with in their places of business? You can argue that the USSC simply followed it's interpretation of the Constitutions equal protection clause, which it did, right or wrong. But their ruling cannot be denied to have stepped on a State's local control. Either you are an advocate of local control or you're not. You cannot have it both way's. TJSWIFT Saint Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
