The most incredibly stupid ignorant hateful thing I've read Follow

I've spent like half an hour of my morning arguing with someone in IRC who says kids raised by gays are worse off than kids in foster care. So not in a good mood anymore. -_-

It's real, real close. Think there'll be a recount whichever way it goes.

Now, now, Katielynn, you lost fair and square. Be happy with your Farm Animal Prop and the No Parental Abortion Notification Prop and let us Yes on Prop 8 proponents enjoy the few pleasures of the Day After the World Ended we can.

Besides, homos still have the same rights as us heteros do. Still do, always have, always will. What's more fair than that?

Totem

Because they call some of them "bears"?

Prop 8 made no provisions for existing marriages, so yes, they could be nullified.

Lol, what did the gays in was ol' Gavin "I'd like to sleep with your wife" Newsom and his smarmy it's-gonna-happen speech which caught his slimy demeanor perfectly. If the blame is to be placed anywhere, stick it on him for being who and what he is. That political ad infuriated nearly everyone I know, regardless if they were for or against Prop 8.

Totem

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but eat shit and die.

Wait wait wait wait.

Marriage getting "taught in schools" is a bad thing?

Huh?

Isn't it one of the "foundations of our nation" per the Family Values guys?

What, instead we're supposed to teach kids that there is no institution for monogamy at all in the US and we should all be swingers as nature intended?

The Consequences
The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage did not just overturn the will of California voters; it also redefined marriage for the rest of society, without ever asking the people themselves to accept this decision. This decision has far-reaching consequences. For example, because public schools are already required to teach the role of marriage in society as part of the curriculum, schools will now be required to teach students that gay marriage is the same as traditional marriage, starting with kindergarteners. By saying that a marriage is between “any two persons” rather than between a man and a woman, the Court decision has opened the door to any kind of “marriage.” This undermines the value of marriage altogether at a time when we should be restoring marriage, not undermining it.

EDUCATION CODE
SECTION 51890-51891

51890. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "comprehensive health
education programs" are defined as all educational programs offered
in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in the public school
system, including in-class and out-of-class activities designed to
ensure that:
(1) Pupils will receive instruction to aid them in making
decisions in matters of personal, family, and community health, to
include the following subjects:
(A) The use of health care services and products.
(B) Mental and emotional health and development.
(C) Drug use and misuse, including the misuse of tobacco and
alcohol.
(D) Family health and child development, including the legal and
financial aspects and responsibilities of marriage and parenthood.


Not saying that it's not a giagantic stretch or whether I agree with the approach or not, but this is what they are referencing.

If we give vacuums marriage rights, pretty soon they will want voting rights too.

Then, whats to stop a vacuum cleaner from running on a purely vacuum agenda?

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be swearing allegiance and paying taxes to vacuum cleaners, that would suck.

The same thing could have been said about interracial marriage before 1967 Totem...we'll get there eventually...hopefully in within the next four years. I would love for my daughter to have no memory of a time when as a country we allowed for such denial of basic civil rights to the chant of "separate but equal". I've said it before and I'll say it again, the majority have no business on voting on the rights of a minority.

Nexa

Edited, Nov 5th 2008 3:30pm by Nexa

Not even close to being true, and you know that your version of the "truth" is disingenuous at best. Frankly this "we all have the same rights" thing is quite trollish since you know it's a lie you're twisting to try to make true.

YOU, as a heterosexual, have the right to get married to the consenting adult with whom you are in love and/or to whom you are sexually attracted. A gay person doesn't have that right.