Shall we take out the tiny violin for the supporters of the California marriage amendment? As Orion45's diary pointed out, the wording of Prop 8, as rewritten for the ballot by Attorney General Jerry Brown clarifies the intent of the measure: Proposition 8 ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. Full story...
It's hard to believe that it's been 45 years since the assassination of JFK. A few years ago I spent Thanksgiving in Arlington, TX.
I'm annoyed.
I've been reading a thread on a denominational bulletin board where some have been telling the LGBT people things l can't tolerate:
LGBT people need to convince the majority to allow them to have civil rights If most LGBT people are not Christian, how can Christians support their rights? Events like Southern Decadence show that LGBT people are not serious about marriage Isolated incidences of rage and violence by [some] LGBT people show that [all] LGBT people are not deserving of civil rights If LGBT people do not repudiate every violent and immoral act by LGBT people, they are tacitly supporting those actionsI'm fed up.
All I can say is that I hope to see more letters like this on the Americans for Truth Obsessed With Against Homosexuality web site.
Early Sunday morning we will land in the Netherlands and spend 10 days in a country where we are legally whole.
Mike Hein, Mike Heath and the rest of the idle fundamentalists in the homosexual stronghold of New England are trying to gin up some outrage by tying random events to The Gay Agenda in the wake of Prop 8 - screaming about hate crimes.
I'm conflicted whether I should bring up this topic at work, because I don't want to seem like a "Grinch".
Oh, the irony. I'm sure she's thinking about The Man Upstairs and the sanctity of marriage while she's grinding the pole for "fitness.
Don't count on anyone simply handing over gay rights upon polite request. David Hart
Let us first understand that our adversaries are dominionists.
Crossposted from Bilerico-Florida.
We knew it was coming. It was only a matter of time until the backers of Florida's Amendment 2 proved exactly how dishonest they were during their lie-filled campaign and went after domestic partnership benefits in Florida- despite saying it would have "no effect on benefits" and it was "only about one thing- marriage.
Microsoft had their annual shareholders meeting the other day. As anticipated, His Royal Homobigot, The Reverend Ken Hutcherson was there to "put the fear of god" into Microsoft for not hating on the gays.
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