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10 DAYS SUSPENSION NEMESIS |
2010 California Protection of Marriage Act.
Awesome. I signed, as a California absentee voter. Will you? We were successful at protecting marriage from those evil, nasty, pesky gays. Now we need to protect it from the ultimate enemy - people who throw marriage away for convenience. You can find the initiative (and a donation link, as well as some rocking T-shirts) at the website "rescuemarriage.org." |
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Rent-a-marriage
Lease-a-marriage Wandering and Wondering |
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Really? No divorces or divorcees? Only annullments and widows?
Now you find out how fast a divorce lawyer can write a check to a PAC. Now go a-way or I shall taunt you a second time! |
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 This has got to have bipartisan support! |
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So let me get this right, they're trying to outlaw divorce?
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I think it's a joke.
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I think they're trying to make the point that "marriage" is not the hallowed institution that the religious right would have you believe. If the measure meets the opposition that it's sure to garner, then obviously marriage isn't some venerable entity that "needs saving" and instead should be defined as... whatever the hell we say it is.  |
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Well the guy who is trying to get it passed into law is a joke. Name's John Marcotte. Religious wacko it seems.
Part of an interview with him...
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I wish I lived in California just so I could sign this.
It would be worth it. |
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I think you've fallen for part of the joke. I don't think Marcotte is a religious wacko, here's his website: http://www.badmouth.net/ "People who supported Prop 8 weren't trying to take rights away from gays, they just wanted to protect traditional marriage. That's why I'm confident that they will support this initiative, even though this time it will be their rights that are diminished. To not support it would be hypocritical." http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/divorce/divorce.php |
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That's the point. It's a catch-22. Either the religious nutjobs support this just as much as they supported Prop 8, or their stated reasons for supporting Prop 8 were just a coverup for naked bigotry.
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Thanks Bonesaw. I'm a bit slow sometimes.  |
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...and there you have it. Substitute John Doe or John Q Public for John Marcotte, and you can see into the soul of millions of 'constitutional scholars' through that quote. Now go a-way or I shall taunt you a second time! |
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Naked bigots - appalling... But isn't this phrase "religious nutjobs" just as hateful and bigoted as calling blacks who want equality "civil rights nutjobs" or "anti-racism nutjobs"? So when is name calling and demonizing not bigotry, only when liberals do it? Wandering and Wondering |
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But there were civil right nutjobs. Nation of Islam leaps to mind, as do the Black Panthers. There's even a lot of gay nutjobs, like ACT UP.
It's not bigoted to point out nut-jobbery wherever it exists. If the religious nutjobs in question are entitled to use government to enforce silly opinions like, "my right to think you're icky trumps your right to live free from my interference in your personal life," well, I'm going to make fun of them as often and as publicly as I can. |
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Yeah, this'll fly. NOT. Some legislators are trying to grab votes from the righty-tight-azz crowd.... that's all this amounts to. The right gets Bush-whacked again. And, they'll fall for it, too. They'll have spent a lot of energy and money, make a hero out of some quick politician who'll lose the "act," but win an election and be able to show them that he's "made of the 'right' stuff." And the wheels on the bus go round and round. ...Suckers. |
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Speaking of suckers....
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It may be a joke to him, but he did file the petition. There is a video here from KXTV
(*http://www.asylum.com/2009/09/14/prankster-introduces-ballot-initiative-to-ban-divorce/*) This is what he filed and it's from the Attorney General's Office In California (*http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i823_initiative_09-0026.pdf*) A lot of people are buying it Bleah. If you do a search on the 2010 California Marriage Protection Act, you will see what I mean. |
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I wonder if the Mormon Church will help fund it...
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I'm hoping it passes. A little quid pro quo would be a nice change in the "wreaking havok in our personal lives" department. Mean-spirited? Perhaps. It's justified though, all things considered, espceically when one considers the irony of the "national organization FOR marriage" filing petition in California courts to annul legal marriages in that state. |
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