God hates the world according to WBC

June 26, 2009 at 5:51 pm | In love, ridiculous, thoughts | 1 Comment
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www.youtube.com/abortedartistoracle

Honestly I’m a little bit speechless. Putting this much effort and rehearsal into hate speech reminds me a bit of premeditated murder. I didn’t realize that their website actually is godhatesfags dot com. Wow. I wonder if they were shocked that that domain name wasn’t already taken.

fidelity

May 28, 2009 at 10:58 am | In love, politics | Leave a Comment
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Well, this sucks.

May 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm | In love, politics, ridiculous | Leave a Comment
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I honestly didn’t expect it after all the good news these days. Just another setback to get over and get past.

A recap from the Los Angeles Times:

The legal fight over same-sex marriage in California began in San Francisco in 2004, when Mayor Gavin Newsom spurned state law, and the city began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. Long lines of couples showed up to marry and celebrated within view of the court with rice and champagne.

Those gay couples who wed in San Francisco later had their marriages rescinded by the California Supreme Court, which ruled that a city could not single-handedly flout state law. But the court said supporters of marriage rights could challenge the ban in the lower courts.

The legal fight moved to San Francisco Superior Court, where a judge struck down the marriage ban as unconstitutional. A Court of Appeal in San Francisco later overturned that decision on a 2-1 vote. The state high court eventually took up the case, which culminated in a May 15 ruling last year declaring gays could marry each other.

Then, of course, Proposition 8 was drafted, which would again ban gay marriage. It passed, but barely, with 52% of the vote.

JUST LEGALIZE IT, CALIFORNIA!

The only good part of the story:

Sexual orientation will continue to receive the strongest constitutional protection possible when California courts consider cases of alleged discrimination. The California Supreme Court is the only state high court in the nation to have elevated sexual orientation to the status of race and gender in weighing discrimination claims.

As it should be.

5 years

May 17, 2009 at 10:13 am | In love, politics | Leave a Comment
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It’s been 5 years since gay marriage was first legalized in Massachusetts, and the take home message is as follows:

“What happened in Massachusetts is, the sky hasn’t fallen. It wasn’t the end of the family or the end of the world as we know it,” said the Rev. Aaron R. Payson, pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester.

I don’t have anything else cool to talk about. Sorry. I owe you.

For anyone in Califonia:

October 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm | In love, ridiculous | Leave a Comment
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cookies

September 9, 2008 at 8:25 pm | In ridiculous, thoughts | Leave a Comment
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So, today I was doing some thinking.

Let’s say that I was in the cafeteria and got a delicious chocolate-chip cookie.

Work with me here. I have this amazing cookie… and I am eating it and it is so incredible, when I look over to my friend and see that she does not have a cookie and is completely missing out on how great it is.

She is in the cafeteria with me, and can smell the cookies, and look at the cookies, but she is not allowed to have a cookie.

It is not because has a food allergy, or because she is broke (the cookies are free.)
It is because she is a lesbian and is dating another woman.

Think about this for a moment.

If she was allowed to have one of these delectable cookies, would that make my cookie any less delicious?
No!

If she got a cookie, would it be bigger than my cookie?
No! These cookies are mass-produced, not homemade!

Would her acquisition of a cookie lead to my cookie getting taken away from me?
No!

So why shouldn’t she be allowed to have a cookie?
Is that the way the cookie crumbles for anyone who is LGBTQ?

(In case you are having trouble following my logic, replace “cafeteria” with “United States” and “cookie” with “marriage.” Other acceptable answers include “rights.” A second read through with these substitutions might might be necessary.)

This post inspired by a CNN.com poll, “Should gay and lesbian couples be allowed to marry, giving them full legal rights of married couples, or not?”
47% of voters would let these couples have cookies.
47% would deprive them of this.
6% actually had to take some time to think about it.
I hope they direct that 6% to this post.

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