> I cannot understand how you can support queer rights and yet also
> support a tool (democracy) that is used to persecute queers and deny
> them the rights that you claim to support. Unless you are maintaining
> that supporting the abstract notion of democracy is more important than
> ending the actual persecutiuon of queers.
Perhaps it would not be amiss to recommend that anyone worried about this conflict between right and democracy have a look at Plato's "Apology" and "Crito."
Granted, Plato and Socrates are no one's "working class heros," but these dialogues are a point of departure for discussing the related issues, at least. One proposition they suggest is that, as you say, it should not be assumed that whatever the majority of people think is always right.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. -- Attr. to Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile