Ken Nelson

Good movie Tom. Now shut up

Tom Hanks says having an opinion different from him is “un-American”:

“The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen,” he told Tarts. “There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed, and people can see who’s responsible, and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting Constitution, and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian, constitutional process.

Tom does good stuff for veterans.   So I have leeway for him… but he might also ask a few of them if they slogged across Europe so gays could marry.  Or more precisely if they slogged across Europe so that 9 elitists in black robes could force us all to do what most sensibly know is wrong.

They didn’t Tom.  

Tom, you need an introduction into negative and positive rights. Forcing me to recognize gay people’s marriage gives them something at my expense.  A positive right is something that can only be given by taking away from somebody else.  Our Constitution doesn’t have them.  Only judges invent them.