Comments | nopar: WELL DONE, COUNTRY! California, we need to talk.

nopar

WELL DONE, COUNTRY! California, we need to talk.

Nov 05, 2008 10:40

Firstly, "President-elect Barack Obama". We fucking did it. The majority of our country got up and did something positive. Buy today's newspapers and frame them, because this is huge. This is something we should all be genuinely proud to be a part of, unless you voted for McCain. Or NaderApparently prop 8 is passing, though. A simple ( Read more... )

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megan_desu November 6 2008, 01:08:29 UTC

Looking on the bright side, gay marriage support has increased by the double digits since the first law was enacted to prevent gay marriage. If the trend continues we should be golden in a few years.

In the meantime, I want to buy myself a black shirt with "Second Class Citizen" in white lettering. I am definitely disappointed with California. I expected better of us.

I just love how this discrimination was worded in a non-discriminating fashion. If we define a right inclusively as being for a specific group of people, then legally what would stop us from defining "employment" as a payment contract between an employer and a democrat or a person of secular beliefs. Then only they could work, and under the law it wouldn't be "discrimination" because it is just following the definition of employment. Granted, we could then create positions of "corporate slaves" which include some of the rights granted to employees.