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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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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."

Amazing, considering the majority just voted to give themselves more benefits - at the expense of the minority.

Shall we have a discussion about who produces and pays the taxes in this country.

Newsflash: Production doesn't just mean turning a screw. Production is the end result of a creative mind. Take away the creative mind and what will the "workers" of this country have to produce.

I'm gonna step out on a limb, but I'm guessing the thinkers - the real producers of this country are a miniority.

21 posted on 11/05/2008 5:33:28 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: SmithL
In a heartbreaking defeat for the gay-rights movement

'Heartbreaking,' eh? No bias there, no siree. /s

22 posted on 11/05/2008 5:35:31 PM PST by shhrubbery! (Obama: The Only Senator Who Voted Against Stopping Infanticide)
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To: SmithL; calcowgirl; ElkGroveDan; SierraWasp; doug from upland; kellynla

Here’s the map of how the vote in Calinfornia broke down.

http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/map190000000008.htm

What’s surprising is that Los Angeles County voted in favor of Proposition 8.


25 posted on 11/16/2008 5:33:42 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Jarred. But they swear they slipped and fell on it in the shower.


26 posted on 11/16/2008 5:36:16 PM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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“What’s surprising is that Los Angeles County voted in favor of Proposition 8?”

Not really when you take into consideration that 54% Hispanics, 49% Asians & 70% Blacks voted for Prop 8.
Of course, some lawyers in black robes may very well reverse the vote of the people yet again...


27 posted on 11/16/2008 6:30:20 PM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Morgana

The monogamous marriage is a religious rite and it comes directly from religion.

Since when should the religious standard of monogamous marriage be applied to secular law???

Why not polygyny or polyandry???

ANSWER: Religious faggots cannot admit there is an axiomatic state of reproductive mammalian biology scientifically consistent with evolutionary theory.


28 posted on 11/16/2008 6:38:42 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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What’s surprising is that Los Angeles County voted in favor of Proposition 8.

It's not all that surprising. Blacks and Latinos voted for Prop 8, enthusiastically. A couple of my black (somewhat liberal) friends are livid that the SF whackos are trying to frame this as a civil rights issue and comparing it to discrimination against blacks. I hope the pro-gay-marriage folks keep up that line of propaganda--it's a sure loser!

29 posted on 11/16/2008 7:24:46 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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You’re slipping a bit into their playing field when you say “same definition” that has “existed for millenia”.

It is THE only definition, defined by God, not on a whim by societies, no matter how old.

All they’re trying to do is UNdefine it.


30 posted on 11/16/2008 7:26:27 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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Plus, they simply hate, with white-hot intolerance, anyone that breeds more humananity. They refer to us as "breeders" as a pejoritive term, wishing we were all "terminal!" They line right up with the militant EnvironMentalists on this!!!

I have a question about the assertion as to the racial, or ethnic identy of voters... How can anyone tell how blacks or hispanics voted? There is no place to designate such a thing on ballots. Only on regristration forms where I write in "human" when it asks my race!!!

I don't doubt these percentages, I just can't figure out where and how this info is recorded from our "secret ballots."

31 posted on 11/16/2008 9:36:26 PM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the USSA on it's way to join the third whirled in mutual misery with Barak Odrama!!!)
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