Proposition 8

[pegkerr]

Post this on your blog if you're in a heterosexual marriage and you don't want it to be "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage cheapens or hurts it somehow.

Is this a surprise to any of you? If you've been paying attention for the past--geeze--six years I've been keeping this journal, no, probably not.

Please let Proposition 8 not pass. Please, please, please.

I will probably call my mother-in-law today who lives in California. Don't think I have any worries there, though.

Comments

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

Like you, I'm really hoping this gets shot down in flames. Posted my thoughts on the whole issue a while back.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Please let Proposition 8 not pass. Please, please, please.

From your fingers to God's ears.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I have this image of Peg givin' God a wet willie.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Tea all OVER the terminal!

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

My work here is done.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

The Mormans of all people are pouring money and labor into this effort. A friend complains that his mother's church has been having work parties on church grounds trying to get this passed. There was enough fuss that the church has stopped its calls from the Utah parishes, but CA efforts are still going strong. The Morman church is ignoring laws that prevent political work in the church. But this stuff is hard to catch and prove.

People should reject this notion purely from a seperation of church and state perspective, if nothing else.

[trogon.livejournal.com]

Actually, the way the laws are written, political activity on church grounds is legal so long as it's issue-based; they can't endorse candidates but they can take a stand on issues.

The Unitarian church I attend in the LA area has been doing weekly phone-banking for No on 8 for about two months now, and collecting donations at the social justice table between services. So it does go both ways, at least to some degree.

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

Cool. Glad to hear it. And it is always a pleasure to meet a fellow UU, although I can't claim to regularly attend.

In the case of this one particular church, his elderly mother accidently brought home a call script which was not supposed to leave the property. He found it and was appalled. Enough so, that he wondered if he should steal it and send it into the state authorities. I don't know how that ended up working out since he is too ill to send many e-mails these days.

It has got to be just awful for him. Both have health issues which are likely to kill them relatively soon. My friend has slightly better odds of outliving his mom, but not by much. And she is spending her meager time and energy working to promote Prop Hate. He's been openly gay for thirty years. She thinks that is a terrible choice and wishes it could be beaten out of him. I find her views mind-boggling.

[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this! Even though it's a given as to where you stand on this issue, someone will see it and give it some though before they vote.

[siriologist.livejournal.com]

We have Amendment 2 in Florida. Luckily last year we passed an amendment to the constitiution that says you can't amend the constitution without a super majority of the vote (60% I think). So its thought that very few things will pass. But I will vote a big Huge NO! on it ... Good luck in your state.