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chibi_trillianProposition 8 passed.
I've donated to Equality CA and HRC, I've been both a buyer and a seller in a fandom charity auction to raise money to fight the measure, and I've been watching the results for it all day between bouts of trying to get my piece-of-shit label printer at work to function.
I started to get angry when I realized that the early exit polls showed the measure failing by about the same percentage as it passed by, meaning that some folks lied to the nice pollsters. You were ashamed enough to lie about how you voted, because you knew it was wrong, but not ashamed enough to vote differently.
But I didn't get choked up until I read the MSNBC article about Prop 8 passing and read what Frank Schubert, the co-head of Yes On 8, said after the declaration. He was so smug, so immensely pleased with himself and his bigotry that I wanted to vomit. This is the same guy that sent out extortion letters to companies that donated to oppose the ban, the same guy who orchestrated horrible lying TV and radio ads that turned a population fairly strongly against Prop 8 to one just barely for it. And he was sitting there talking like he had the moral high ground because he thought that some of his fellow human beings should have less rights than others, babbling vapidly about the sanctity of marriage.
Apparently, gay marriage totally destroys the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour Las Vegas marriage.
And it completely annihilates the sacredness of marriages of convenience or for money.
And let us not forget how those horrible gays are devaluing the natural glory that is the green card marriage.
After all, decades of monogamous committment, which I had mistakenly thought were the basis of a marriage prior to this, don't matter if there are faggots or dykes involved.
I hope the ban's not retroactive. I hope those 18,000 married gay couples in California stay there, still married, creating legal tangles and making the bigots weep. I hope they file lawsuits and haul this shit right up to the Supreme Court and dare the Justices to say that "equal under the law" doesn't apply to them. I hope we get the Roe v. Wade of gay marriage out of this bullshit. And if we do, I propose we all send Frank and all the Yes on 8 managers thank you cards. After all, we couldn't have done it without them.
I've donated to Equality CA and HRC, I've been both a buyer and a seller in a fandom charity auction to raise money to fight the measure, and I've been watching the results for it all day between bouts of trying to get my piece-of-shit label printer at work to function.
I started to get angry when I realized that the early exit polls showed the measure failing by about the same percentage as it passed by, meaning that some folks lied to the nice pollsters. You were ashamed enough to lie about how you voted, because you knew it was wrong, but not ashamed enough to vote differently.
But I didn't get choked up until I read the MSNBC article about Prop 8 passing and read what Frank Schubert, the co-head of Yes On 8, said after the declaration. He was so smug, so immensely pleased with himself and his bigotry that I wanted to vomit. This is the same guy that sent out extortion letters to companies that donated to oppose the ban, the same guy who orchestrated horrible lying TV and radio ads that turned a population fairly strongly against Prop 8 to one just barely for it. And he was sitting there talking like he had the moral high ground because he thought that some of his fellow human beings should have less rights than others, babbling vapidly about the sanctity of marriage.
Apparently, gay marriage totally destroys the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour Las Vegas marriage.
And it completely annihilates the sacredness of marriages of convenience or for money.
And let us not forget how those horrible gays are devaluing the natural glory that is the green card marriage.
After all, decades of monogamous committment, which I had mistakenly thought were the basis of a marriage prior to this, don't matter if there are faggots or dykes involved.
I hope the ban's not retroactive. I hope those 18,000 married gay couples in California stay there, still married, creating legal tangles and making the bigots weep. I hope they file lawsuits and haul this shit right up to the Supreme Court and dare the Justices to say that "equal under the law" doesn't apply to them. I hope we get the Roe v. Wade of gay marriage out of this bullshit. And if we do, I propose we all send Frank and all the Yes on 8 managers thank you cards. After all, we couldn't have done it without them.
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Date: 2008-11-05 10:14 pm (UTC)Screw you, Prop 8. Wasn't gay marriage just legalised, though?
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Date: 2008-11-05 11:48 pm (UTC)(Last I heard, it was a close call and going before the courts, but beyond evoking bitter flashbacks to Bush vs. Gore, the fact that it got so many people behind it in the first place makes me want to cry...)
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Date: 2008-11-06 01:49 am (UTC)I listened to a pundit talk about the fact that most black Californians voted to pass 8, and I honestly couldn't fathom it. They (and all of us) saw the fruition of the civil rights movement in Barack Obama, and proceeded to strip civil rights from their fellow citizens (as did many in other states).
It's so sad.
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Date: 2008-11-06 03:03 am (UTC)This is a particularly good ad.
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Date: 2008-11-06 05:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-06 09:36 am (UTC)Attorney Gloria Allred and her clients, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, will hold a news conference today November 5, 2008 at 12:00 noon at 6300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1500 L.A. to announce a new lawsuit against Prop. 8.
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Date: 2008-11-06 09:36 am (UTC)http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/lawsuit-to-be-filed-to-stop-prop-8-hate.html