Follow Prop. 8 anti-gay marriage initiative

6 Comments on “Follow Prop. 8 anti-gay marriage initiative”

1. #1 boy1der
   on Nov 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am

   it’s sad that chickens now have a right to larger cages but we don’t have a right to marry who we love.

2. #2 Brad
   on Nov 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am

   I hate to say this but Gay people in California and around the country need to put an end to support of ALL black candidates until they show support or try to influence their communities. Voting for a candidate simply because it helps the democrats is no longer an option. It is not just the religeous faction of the black community doing this. It is also the thug rapper mentality of central LA that has never opened the bible in their life. It was hard to watch Puffy Combs be interviewed about all the doors this election opened for black people knowing that he used none of his influence to get inner city “urban” blacks to vote down this proposition. It is time to stop always being the better man and supporting their civil rights when they don’t support ours. Enough already. I don’t want to wait ten years for times to change. It’s time to get angry and more pro-active against the very ones that scorn us. The only thing this Obama victory changed was the lives of black people because it obviously did absolutely nothing for the lives of gay people.

3. #3 Danny
   on Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

   You fudge packers are funny - you LOST and all I find in the MSM are all the other homo loving communists saying it is ‘too close to call’ Too Funny

4. #4 Eric
   on Nov 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

   Brad, I’m sorry but you sound as stupid and bitter as that f*ckin’ idiot closeted pedophile Danny.

   Stop making every fight a black-white, gay-straight battle — there were plenty of non-whites who supported the fight against Prop 8. Just because apparently the only African-Americans that you’re aware of are the Puffys and “thug rappers” doesn’t mean that many in the African-American community aren’t shocked and saddened by the passage of Prop 8. Your rationale makes as much sense as me, an African-American, saying I would never vote for a white politician again if Obama didn’t win.

   By continuing to make such exclusionary statements, you place us in our own little corner, blocked off from the rest of the world, in our own little gay ghetto. If there’s one thing that we all should learn from Obama’s victory, it’s that sometimes things may not move as fast as we want them to, but hope springs eternal. Eventually, we will all reach the Promised Land, and reap the rewards of what this country truly stands for.

   Life. Liberty. Hope. Equality.

5. #5 Laugel
   on Nov 6th, 2008 at 6:50 am

   What a disappointment…with the actual governor gay rights wont make progress in California, get rid of him. Don’t forget his upbringing, Austria is one of the most xenophobic and homophobic country in western Europe.
   Don’t give up continue to fight for equality and respect, your cause is just.

6. #6 Thelea Draganic
   on Nov 8th, 2008 at 4:19 am

   I am upset about this erroneous finger pointing at African-Americans regarding Proposition 8. Why are you so quick to believe whatever you hear? If someone told me 70 percent of gay people voted against Obama my first thought would be, excuse me Jesus, that is crap! I don’t believe it! This political year was fraught with right wing lies. Bear that in mind.

   “Religious organizations that support Proposition 8 include the Roman Catholic Church], Knights of Columbus, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) a group of Evangelical Christians led by Jim Garlow and Miles McPherson, American Family Association, Focus on the Family[and the National Organization for Marriage Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, California’s largest, has also endorsed the measure. The Bishops of the California Catholic Conference released a statement supporting the proposition. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) has publicly supported the proposition and encouraged their membership to support it, by asking its members to donate money and volunteer time. The First Presidency of the church announced its support for Proposition 8 in a letter read in every congregation. Latter-day Saints have provided a significant source for financial donations in support of the proposition, both inside and outside the State of California. About 45% of out-of-state contributions to Protect Marriage.com has come from Utah, over three times more than any other state.”

   Still, even though gays were fighting to preserve a basic right, it was the anti-equality side in California that seemed to have the most fervor. A symbolic low point for the gay side came on Oct. 13, when the Sacramento Bee ran a remarkable story about Rick and Pam Patterson, a Mormon couple of modest means - he drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic, she raises their five boys - who had withdrawn $50,000 from their savings account and given it to the pro-8 campaign. “It was a decision we made very prayerfully,” Pam Patterson, 48, told the Bee’s Jennifer Garza. “Was it an easy decision? No. But it was a clear decision, one that had so much potential to benefit our children and their children.”

   This is your real enemy. Don’t trust exit polls taken when many of these same groups taking them were angry with African-Americans about Obama beating their Christian Right coalition messiah ie Sarah Palin. I think they are pitting one group against the other. African-Americans are less than 7% of the state population, do the math. And they do not have the money to fund a tens of millions of dollars Proposition 8 campaign. Note that they also targeted affirmative action for eradication in another state.

   Rather than be upset at the phantom African-American menace, put forth a gay candidate for office and fight like hell. No one gave Obama anything and they will not give gays anything either. Obama stands on the shoulders of a lot of brave people who gave their lives for him to stand on that podium last night.
   Never trust exits polls because in all my years of life, no one has ever been seen at a polling place asking anyone anything when they left.

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