Comments | pacificamf: Prop 8 Woes

pacificamf

Prop 8 Woes

May 27, 2009 11:35

My morning started with the victorious chatter of my co-workers celebrating yesterday's victory in maintaining the biggoted "ammendment" to the California constitution. The terms "we won" and "our side" were bandied about in complete disregard of the fact that they all know how I feel about the subject. I argued with them all quite a lot as the ( Read more... )

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theginko May 27 2009, 19:43:31 UTC

The California Supreme Court decision had no basis in what is or isn't a fundamental civil right; the scope of the decision was strictly limited to whether Prop. 8 constituted a lawful amendment/revision of the State Constitution or not ( ... )

scsi May 28 2009, 05:13:21 UTC

This isn't really against what you said Brandon, but I wanted you to see it since we are on the same page on this issue (for once ( ... )

pacificamf May 30 2009, 00:05:18 UTC

Not only would I not try to argue that 2 gay men are the same as forty or a hundred....I'm not talking about 2, 40, 100 or 1,000 people, I'm talking about writing discrimination into the constitution. If the state can't afford to give tax breaks to married couples than the legislature needs to deny straight couples and gay couples those tax breaks equally. And I'm not talking about love. The marriage license does not have a clause rending your marriage null and void if it is proven the couples don't love each other. The issue at hand is the supreme court decision statiing that denying marriage to same sex couples violates the constitution. If that is true it is a revision to take those rights away. Prop 8 didn't add to the constitution...it subtracted those rights to Californian citizens.

unagodd May 28 2009, 00:30:08 UTC

Not everyone whose opinion on the matter differs from your own is a religious zealot. This kind of mentality is why I want everyone involved in this whole fiasco to be raped with a steelwool dildo dipped in salt and tabasco sauce.

For the record, I'm in favor of same-sex couples. I am opposed to the concept of requiring religious institutions to sanctify them and equally opposed to religious institutions giving contributions to pundits and lobbying as a unit.

pacificamf May 29 2009, 23:51:25 UTC

I don't mean to imply that everyone who is anti-gay marriage is a religious zealot...while the vocal ones almost universally call upon God to justify their point. I do think that religious zeal in politics is the kind of thing that leads to jihads and the American people have a tendancy to ignore that.

scsi May 28 2009, 04:54:52 UTC

Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one and they all stink.

I'll leave it at that.

I think California has a lot bigger problems than this Prop-8 hooplah, like not becoming further broke.

unagodd May 29 2009, 04:36:37 UTC

Like a legislature paid over $100k a year whose primary task is to form and pass a budget...yet they took EIGHT MONTHS to pass an annual budget this past year.

bible stories alleycat6988 January 9 2010, 13:25:09 UTC

religious fanatics ought to read the bible. if they did they would know how stupid they really are. the god in the bible would have them all anialated for idol worship or some other dumb shit. god sold his chosen people into slavery countless times because they worshiped another god. how many times did he comand his people to practice genocide on whole races of people? except for the virgin girls which they were allowed to keep and rape. if religouse fanatics read the bible they would not be so relgous. the old testement is by far the most violent peice of pornography i have ever read.