Wherein I discuss voting NO on Prop 8

[veryscary]

As you all know, Proposition 8 is a proposed amendment to the CA constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman to eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry. Currently, the vote is too close to call and on election day, this important issue will be decided by literally a handful of votes or so. Therefore it is vitally important

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[uhlume]

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

"When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

"When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

"When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

"When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."

- Martin Niemöller

[phogg]

There's so many ugly thing about 8, I could never list them all, but one of the things I've found that reaches people is asking if they would support a ban on interracial marriage and pointing out that the discrimination of 8 is just as heinous.

[veryscary]

I totally agree. And, if we're using a definition of marriage based on the sacrament of a few outspoken faiths with deep pockets, why don't we include language that bans marriages that would take place in synagogues, mosques or temples too and confine marriages to a man and woman of the same race and a common western faith? Nobody would go that far obviously, but they don't seem afraid of the first step.

[meowllamaspit]

I really wish that I was still a California voter. I'll bug my ex-boyfriend to get to the polls. If he's not registered, I'll kill him.