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Supporters of Prop H8te at my College

{ October 28, 2008 @ 3:37 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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While debating the issue of discrimination to the Prop 8ers at school today, one of the ladies asked why gay people aren’t happy with calling their legal relationships “civil unions” because in California, “civil unions” are afforded the same rights from the State as legal marriages.  (These laws don’t afford equal health care benefits or recognition by other states or by the federal government, however, but that’s for a different blog).

My response was that in order to afford equal protection under the law, -which you cannot have if you seperate an entire group of people based on who they are and label them differently- we could take the religious term, “marriage” out of our law, keep it in the churches, and call all legal marriages “civil unions” so that the legal definition is not the same as the religious one.

You know what she said? “I don’t want to degrade my marriage by calling it a civil union.”

Wait, so a civil union is a step down from marriage?  But it’s legally equal… you said so yourself.  Why wouldn’t you be happy with a civil union?

She told me she had already answered my question.  Yes, that was all I needed to hear.

An Argument Against Changing the Lawful Definition of Marriage

{ October 21, 2008 @ 10:02 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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As it stands, according to the California Constitution, the definition of Marriage is not defined between a man and a woman. Proposition 8 would change the LAWFUL definition of marriage, not the religious definition.

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He’s Created a Monster He Cannot Control

{ October 10, 2008 @ 8:00 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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McCain is trying to rein in the hostility of his supporters today, according to this

article today. He calls Obama a “decent man” whom he just “happens to disagree with.”

Is he really afraid of the behavior of his zealous, extremist supporters who call Obama a terrorist and an “Arab?” Or is he just trying to calm the flames of the fire he fueled because he sees that it is not working in the polls? I would assume the latter, since the man is a disgusting pig who could call his own wife a “cunt,” but that’s just my opinion.

When it’s all over, and Obama is president, the extremists are promising to be just as hostile to a Democratic President as they have been to him as the Nominee. These, my friends and fellow bloggers, are the seeds of oppression, division, and the kind of speech you find in years preceding the last centuries most horrific genocides. John McCain has allowed this to happen despite the warning signs. Now he wants to retract and look like the bigger man. What a fool.

John McCain and his party are dangerous people. It shows in their hate speech and in their lies. It shows in the extremists that join their rallies. It shows when a “liberal” church is attacked by a Ditto-head. It shows when our leaders’ lives are threatened and even taken by people who refuse to here facts from more than one source: the right-wing media. People at the McCain/Palin rallies say how they are “scared” of an Obama presidency. What they should be afraid of is themselves.