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Gay activists jarred by California marriage defeat
AP via SFGate ^
| 11/5/8
| DAVID CRARY and LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writers
Posted on 11/05/2008 4:33:47 PM PST by SmithL
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Whether you like it or not!
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:33:47 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
are they jarred or fisted over this?
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:34:35 PM PST
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
To: SmithL
Got out the vote didn’t ya?
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:34:35 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: SmithL
It passed despite Jerry Brown's underhanded tactic of renaming the proposition to make it sound less appealing to the uninformed voter.
Another bright spot in California was the victory by Duncan D. Hunter, USMC, in San Diego County.
To: SmithL
I’ll never understand why these people are shocked when Americans tell them that they’d like to keep the same definition of marriage that has existed for millenia.
To: SmithL
"There's something deeply wrong with putting the rights of a minority up to a majority vote," said Evan Wolfson, a gay-rights lawyer who heads a group called Freedom to Marry. "If this were being done to almost any other minority, people would see how un-American this is."Bigamists and members of NAMBLA could make the same argument as this guy.
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:40:09 PM PST
by
Azzurri
To: SmithL
"If this were being done to almost any other minority, people would see how un-American this is." Tell it to the polygamists!
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:40:46 PM PST
by
Argus
(Stuff Compassionate and Maverick - just try plain old CONSERVATISM again)
To: SmithL
Why are homosexuals categorized as a separate minority group?
Just more absurdity.
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:43:09 PM PST
by
Boiling Pots
(Barack Obama is not your hip black friend)
To: Azzurri
"There's something deeply wrong with putting the rights of a minority up to a majority vote," The only thing more disturbing is putting the rights of the majority up to a minority vote. And THAT is done all the time! Or worse yet, no vote is taken. The majority's rights are just redefined by judicial fiat.
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:43:56 PM PST
by
IronJack
(=)
To: Argus
I was happy to vote for the ban. Every polling place had queer activists holding up “Yes on 8” signs. Yeah, sure. A lot of good it did them.
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:45:39 PM PST
by
mrvirgo
To: SmithL
Obama had a nuanced position on the issue, saying he opposes gay marriage while also speaking out against Proposition 8.
In other words, he lied. Claiming to support marriage in order to dupe moderates while opposing laws to protect marriage. Let's hope his tax policy doesn't suffer from the same "nuance"!
I'm elated that Prop 8 passed, but the exit polling is dire, showing a generational shift that will probably usher in the approve of homosexual "marriage" within a decade.
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:46:18 PM PST
by
UncleDick
(Sola fide)
To: mrvirgo
It did to them good. They got nearly 50% of the vote. Ten years ago it would only have been 20% and ten years before that they would have never tried.
They keep gaining, and they are suing to stop enactment of the proposition. Until our country returns to its roots as moral and honest people, they still can win.
To: MAD-AS-HELL
'Freedom to Marry'Didn't he mean 'Freedom to be Mary'?
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:49:11 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Let's be proactive and start the impeachment NOW.)
To: anniegetyourgun
They are shocked to find that California consists of more than San Fran, Hollyweird and the newsrooms. So is the rest of the country.
It should be noted that the poling data shows that it was the Black vote that carried the day for prop 8. Maybe some of them are paying attention or is it that they don’t want to share minority privilege?
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posted on
11/05/2008 4:49:49 PM PST
by
Steamburg
(NO SARAH, NO MONEY. Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: SmithL
They still have Massachusetts!
To: Steamburg
That’s just evidence that they voted for Obama on one factor. In a normal universe, that would be called “racism.”
To: mrvirgo
Every polling place had queer activists holding up Yes on 8 signs.Wouldn't that have been "no on 8"? or "no on h8"? I saw a number of those ones.
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posted on
11/05/2008 5:10:10 PM PST
by
reformed_dem
(I voted for Sarah and her running mate.)
To: Boiling Pots
You think any other group wants to claim the rump rangers as a member?
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posted on
11/05/2008 5:13:11 PM PST
by
nomad
To: SmithL
California voters put a stop to gay marriage, creating uncertainty about the legal status of 18,000 same-sex couples who tied the knot during a four-month window of opportunity opened by the state's highest court.Uncertainty? As the power vests in the state, by definition they created certainty.
To: UncleDick
I'm elated that Prop 8 passed, but the exit polling is dire, showing a generational shift that will probably usher in the approve of homosexual "marriage" within a decade. It would take a 2/3rd majority to overturn the amendment, assuming that dictatorial judges don't try to first. That won't happen in a decade.
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posted on
11/05/2008 5:27:44 PM PST
by
Ol' Sparky
(Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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