Obama's 'Emancipation Proclamation' - Universalizing Early Omniarchic Theory

"The real India has Muslims and Hindus in every village and in every city." These are the words that Roshan Seth, playing Jawarharlal Nehru, utters in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. It is the retort he wages against Alyque Padamsee's Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who opens the scene addressing Gandhi - "I'm concerned about the slavery of the Muslim people."

North Carolina has proved to be a state enslaved by a certain kind of master. A state senator drafted and the people have passed what would restrict the rights and interests of a certain population. Granted, the two sides, majority and minority, cannot be so well discerned as their early-20th century Indian counterparts. They, nonetheless, exist in North Carolina. Refer to A First Amendment. And the majority, who posted such a law, mandates the life choices of a minority - the essence of slave-master conduct.

Jinnah proposes a majority-Muslim state to be Pakistan and the rest "is your India." Gandhi drops his head in annoyance as Sardar Vallabhai  Patel questions the possibility of Pakistan - a geographic one. (Bengal and Punjab - the regions containing Muslim majorities - were on opposite sides of India). Jinnah calms his colleague - "Let us worry about Pakistan. You worry about India." As per the set up Jinnah suggests, Pakistan would represent "the Muslim-majority provinces [and] Hindustan...the Hindu-majority provinces" in compromises whereby the "minority Muslims outside the Muslim territory would be protected" just as "non-Muslims inside it."

Despite, or maybe in spite, of what happened in NC, president Barack Obama has decided to adapt a pro-Gay policy. The United States is driven by the "Pakistan" idea.

There are two states in the United States - the Federal one and the local one, the "State" state. Their relationship is what Jinnah had analyzed and sought to make happen in Pakistan. Though by no means is there a  Gay majority in either North Carolina or the USA as a whole by numbers, there is a voice stronger when taken from the nation as a whole. 

There are Gay Americans everywhere. However, their voice isn't heard or is being muted by the straight or, in many cases, homophobic majority. On the national level, however, the gay voice is being heard and isn't being muted by the homophobes. Neither one is necessarily a majority on the national level. Half of all Americans support gay marriage. Meaning, half of Americans don't support gay marriage. Regardless, this doesn't reflect the 60-40 vote cast in North Carolina ushering in the homophobic policy. 

If North Carolina is a gay-minority state and the USA a gay-majority state and Jinnah's negotiations principle was followed, the rights of the gay-minority in NC should be advocated for by the majority in the USA - and they certainly are. Many people point to Obama's speech the other day cementing his unequivocal support for the Gay cause. However, like his predecessors (Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Kennedy's Civil Rights' address), Obama is just a device of this larger principle - a federalist system. Seeking the vote of pro-gay Americans, even if isn't his primary goal, Obama says what he said. 

Indeed, there are gay Americans everywhere; however, their rights aren't being protected everywhere. Thus, their interests are being protected by the majority state, in our case, the federal state. 

Certainly this speaks to the potential for American omniarchy. This communication between the majority and minority is there; however, it is dependent on the politician and his representative way of government. The President bridged the gap of an American pro-gay majority and a North Carolinian anti-gay majority. Yet politicians aren't the solution. Though, we must remember, that it was a politician who mobilized the anti-gay North Carolinian majority to begin with. To reiterate what was said in A First Amendment, the power-oriented nature of these politicians, or at least that which universalizes them, must be shunned and, in their ashes, must rise the cause-oriented political elite.