Please... kill it for good.

The end of inequality and institutionalized hatred, at least where California is concerned, can be achieved in the righteous and hopefully overwhelming defeat of PROPOSITION 8, formally titled the "I So Much Hate Teh Gays Act*", but more widely referred to in my household as the...

"Though My Name Is Steve I Seem To Get An All Hot And Bothered In My 'Nether Regions Whenever OTHER Steves Are Nearby And Since I Am Deeply Ashamed Of My Own Truth, I Need To Punish These Other Steves By Making It Look Like I So Much Hate Teh Gays Act"*.

Look, there is absolutely no compelling or suspenseful reason for most of us in California to vote.

Barack Obama will win in this state because every progressive, centrist, and near-Democrat is gnawing off our digits waiting to vote for President, we have no Senate races and with the exception of CA-4 (BROWN (D) VS. McClintock (ASSHOLE)) there isn't a race that won't be called 38 seconds after the polls close.

That is, with the exception of PROP 8, the Its Not OK Any More To Outwardly Be Prejudiced Against Black People, So Picking On Teh Gays is The Best We Can Do Act.*

Seriously, its 50/50 on this thing and well, I'll let the Congressman Frog Larvae spew overheated hyperbole at you (and you really only need to watch the first 10 seconds)...

Yes, folks, apparently preventing my good friends Matt and Greg from being able to see each other in the hospital when they get in a fight and one of them runs over the others' foot in a fit of rage like happens in every heterosexual marriage is "central not only to California, BUT TO OUR VERY CIVILIZATION."

Seriously... though I'm convinced that marriage for all (read, "the right to throw a over-priced party, where a couple of your friends who are TOTALLY WRONG FOR EACH OTHER hook up in a porta-potty") is coming to California eventually, the question is... how many more decent, intelligent, moral, wonderful people have to have their commitment demeaned and questioned by... well... troglodytes?

Here's where you learn all about it.

Here's where you give.

Here's where you help kill it dead for good.

*Alright its actually called "Eliminated the Right For Same Sex Couples To Marry Act", but I'm so floored by the lack of creativity that I had name it more honestly and with a little flourish.



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If you won't do it because its RIGHT... (2.00 / 1)

......do it for me. Because Matt and Greg have now been married in Hawaii and in Massachusetts  and in California and if Prop 8 passes and they have to get married in another state... that's more plane fair and another gift.

Seriously, if Prop 8 passes, teh gays, along with threatening my own marriage, will cause me to have to declare bankruptcy.


by Lieber on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 10:28:29 AM EST

Re: Please... kill it for good. (2.00 / 1)

Florida's got a constitutional hate amendment on the ballot, too, and it has almost enough support to pass already. Despite gay marriage already being illegal in the state, the wingnuts desperately wanted another ballot question to whip up their base and increase turnout.

And because Florida's proposition is written so badly and broadly, it would have the same unintended effects as Ohio's, affecting domestic-partnership violence and prosecution of domestic violence between non-married couples.

But hey, who cares about all that when you can hate teh gay and use the amendment process to scrounge for fundie votes in a close election.


by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:05:54 AM EST

Re: Please... kill it for good. (2.00 / 1)

er, should've been "affecting domestic-partnership benefits."


by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:06:28 AM EST
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Re: Please... kill it for good. (none / 0)

According to today's LA Times:

An estimated 11,000 same-sex couples were married in California from June 17, when the California Supreme Court began allowing the weddings, to Sept. 17. That's more gay couples married in California in the first three months that same-sex marriages were legal than were married in the first four years it was legal in Massachusetts.


by LakersFan on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 04:15:36 PM EST


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