Comments | urox: more prop 8 ridiculousness

urox

more prop 8 ridiculousness

Nov 05, 2008 10:08

I don't know which of my friends in livejournal I read it off of, but it is ludicrous that more people care about giving chickens more space to live (prop 2 at 6,113,393 yes votes) than they do about preserving the rights of another human being (prop 8 at 4,792,873 no votes).

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dragontamerno3 November 5 2008, 18:15:40 UTC

I voted yes on 2, but I also voted no on 8. I want to be able to marry who I want to, man or woman. And I want chickens to be a bit more free. They have feelings too.

urox November 5 2008, 18:22:54 UTC

current Prop 2 results:
6,113,393 / 63.2% Yes votes ...... 3,555,798 / 36.8% No votes
current prop 8 results:
5,220,694 / 52.1% Yes votes ...... 4,792,873 / 47.9% No votes

What I want to know is why did prop 2 get over 6 million votes when prop 8 only has 4.8. That seems wrong to me. Over one million people voted for chicken rights rather than human rights.

dragontamerno3 November 5 2008, 22:17:17 UTC

People think we're sick. People think we're not human, less than animals. My own father told me that. My flesh and blood. I asked him why a man and a woman had the right to marry and two men didn't/two women didn't. His responce was 'because we're human.' I had to explain to him that he helped raise a mutant then. He didn't care. I'm not human.

wy November 6 2008, 01:44:15 UTC

unfortunately, the yes on 8 folks didn't sell it on the 'taking away rights' thing. They sold it on 'they'll teach your kids to be that way' thing.

Which is a #$%$# lie, but, hey ...

lyssabits November 6 2008, 04:39:55 UTC

They were also selling it with the fear that churches would lose their tax exempt status when they refused to perform gay marriages. The propaganda was amazing.

lianthe November 6 2008, 02:32:23 UTC

I actually heard that a lot of people (for unknown values of a lot) were confused about Prop 8, which is unfortunate. (also stupid, but people are STUPID) I heard that some people thought voting No was voting AGAINST Gay marriage, not in support of it. I mean, sure... I guess that is a fairly understandable mistake to make, but I still think its an intensely stupid mistake to make. Makes me wonder though... if maybe there were enough people who were mistaken that might have turned the tide.