NOM Fail

Found this and thought I would die laughing. Not only did they misspell "marriage", but they used the word "same" twice. The more that these people open their mouths or put ads on TV, the more ignorant they show themselves to be.

It is incredible that anyone takes these people seriously, but people do. We need to be out there and visible in supporting marriage equality. Even in 21st Century America, nonsense such as this still seems to command credibility.

A Surprise Indeed

Whilst checking out waynebesen.com, I found the following URL;


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlos-watson/how-the-prop-8-ruling-wil_b_208095.html

More complete story here:

http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/bush-solicitor-general-ted-olson.html

In short, it seems that Ted Olson, former Solicitor General during the Bush Administration is going to bring a suit against Prop. H8. This is welcome news indeed. Why? Because it means that more moderate people may be starting to take back the Republican Party from the religious fanatics. Those like Olson and Steve Schmidt, former McCain strategist who are in favour of marriage equality have come to see that the way of hate and fear espoused by so many in the Religious Right is wrong. It is wrong politically and has cost them big, More importantly, it is wrong morally. If hardcore Republicans have come to realise this then there may be some hope for the Republicans and the Log Cabin Republicans.

The shame in this is that I have yet to hear President Obama say Word One in the wake of the California Supreme Court decision the day before yesterday. His silence is deafening. He promised change yet has not lifted a finger on our behalf. This in and of itself speaks volumes about his personal commitment to change and what it says is that there is a possibility of change for everyone except the GLBTQ community.

Many in the gay community mistrust both Mr. Olsen and his real intentions in bringing this suit. I can understand that. The Republicans have historically been no allies of the GLBTQ community. Mistrust is perfectly understandable under the circumstances. However, I will take a wait-and-see attitude. It is entirely possible that Mr. Olsen has experienced a change of heart and if so, that change will bear fruit.

I believe that sooner or later, the Supreme Court of the United States will have to rule on marriage equality. The religious right will fight this until the government lets them know once and for all that equality is for ALL Americans, regardless of race, religion, physical disability, or sexual orientation. You may believe as you wish, but you do not have the right to force others to live according to those beliefs. It happened in the case of the African-American community (remember, many bigots felt they had the Bible on their side in maintaining segregation and bigotry. The Supreme Court finally put paid to that particular element.

It would indeed be a great irony if marriage equality were to come about at the hands of Republicans--avowed conservatives. In this case, if successful, they would be following in the footsteps of our Founding Fathers by extending the actual rights (as opposed to just words on a piece of paper) of "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" to all Americans.

Won't Back Down

I thought I would put up a link to a lovely video on YouTube for people to enjoy and to be inspired by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfPNO7G7qqY

H8 Has Won Out... For the Moment

The Supreme Court of the State of California has upheld Prop H8. There is no gentle way to break the unfortunate news. The Court has seen fit to uphold hatred and bigotry rather than equality and justice. What this says, loud and clear, is that Californians get to vote on the civil rights of fellow-Californians. Whose civil rights would you like to vote on next? Women? African-Americans? Latinos? You can, you know, if you can get a proposition on the ballot. That's all it takes to make sure some group YOU don't like has their civil rights denied.

I urge anyone who reads this blog to log onto the site below and to donate to "Won't Back Down":

http://www.wontbackdown.org/

Yes, this may stand for the time being, but I urge ALL LGBTQ people, families, and friends: don't back down until all people have the right to marry whom they love and when they do, that they have all the RIGHTS and responsibilities of marriage.

CA Supreme Court To Rule on Prop H8

Apparently the Supreme Court will hand down its ruling this coming Tuesday. In view of the recent victories in other states and the District of Columbia, it would be nice to think that decency will overcome hatred and mean-spiritedness, but to be honest, I haven't the foggiest idea of whether the Court will overturn it or not.

This bruhaha over marriage equality makes me ill at times. The fact that the Religious Right takes smug and malicious pleasure in any victories that can be scored against us makes me even more ill. I see God/dess as love and acceptance. while their God hates and rejects, just like so many of his followers.

Why is it that small countries, such as Uruguay enshrine marriage equality in law while we are forced to fight this battle state by state by state, with no guarantee that the Religious Right will not manage to get it voted down should the Leslature pass a marriage equality law or State Courts rule the banning of marriage equality to be unconstitutional?

I have only one comfort if Prop H8 is upheld: sooner or later, we WILL have marriage equality. One day, people will vote on the basis of love and acceptance rather than to have a group to look down on as inferior.

Master of Fail, Jr.

Well, folks, it has been about three months since the Duggar boy married and yep, his wife is praygnuuunt. I don't think too many are surprised at this--I certainly am not. All I can say is, thank the Goddess that I am not that poor girl. This is just the beginning of baybee after baybee after baybee...

What I want to see is how much government money these leeches are going to accept. You know that somewhere, somehow, these characters are going to be slurping at the public trough. After all, it's their Gawd-given right to have one baybee after another, and by gum, the gubmint will just have to help pay for all those kids...

Just more hypocrisy from people who have nothing good to say about government aid programmes--until it comes time to line up and slurp.

The Fury of the Religious Right

As anyone who follows the news knows, the Vermont Legislature overrode the governor's veto of a bill legalising same-sex marriage, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and New York's governor introduced a bill permitting marriage equality in that state--it looks like the Legislature may have the numbers to pass the bill.

The Religious Wrong, of course, isn't taking this lying down. No siree, they are already on the attack and have been since last week. First it was an television ad "The Coming Storm", which is essentially a pack of lies as to how marriage equality will negatively affect Christians...and also gives them the chance to play the victim card. Noiw there is an ad posted on YouTube picturing poor little Christian kids being forced to wear duct tape over their mouths and the evil teacher throwing the Bible in the trash. Needless to say, the little Christian kids revolt, pull the tape from their mouths and rescue the Bible. All this fuss because of the Day of Silence, which is basically a day of not speaking to protest how LGBT people have been--and often still are--silenced. No one is forcing anyone into participating, least of all school-age children.

I am so sick and tired of the lies of the Religious Wrong. They first try spreading lies about LGBTQ people and when that fails, they play the victim card. They claim persecution when, in essence, they have had control of the discourse on this subject for hundreds of years. Until recently, it has been a monologue as the punishments for speaking up and being out were severe. Now, gay people are being given a chance to speak and are beginning to be given the rights they should have had all along, and the fundies are crying. Cry me a river! LGBTQ people disturb the fundies' comfort zone--it makes them have to acknowledge that there are other realities out there-at least it should. But when denial and lying don't work, they resort to crying "Persecution."

Any of you fundies out there ever heard of "Thou shalt not bear false witness"? Hope you can justify yourself on Judgement Day, for "inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these, ye have done it unto Me."