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Close Your Eyes and Do It For England

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I donated $40 last night to the campaign to defeat Proposition 8 in California (Prop 8 will remove the constitutional gender-indiscriminant right to marry, and nullify existing same sex marriages in CA). I'm hoping that James and I can go there next year and get married. Either there, or Connecticut.

We are upstanding citizens, we pay our taxes, don't hurt anyone, and just want to be able to rely on the legal system to acknowledge that we can make decisions for each other in times of crisis. We're not trying to undermine other families. I don't know how we could.

Someone linked to this on Twitter, and it convinced me to donate:



Yikes. is the link, if you're interested in donating, too.

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💬 9 comments

  1. tinypliny ·

    That video was so lunatic I couldn't watch it for more than 10 second. PUKE.

    And really, this is why this country is in such major trouble - crszy, insular bigots whose effective brain is the size of a peanut. :/

  2. tinypliny ·

    REALLY? Can rational people even see a reason to this madness? How in the world did this prop 8 whatever even get drafted? It represents the core of discrimination. It is as sickening as racism. How can people exhibit such intolerance in as diverse a country as US? It is bewildering to me that a country that is far far ahead in scientific accomplishment in the whole of the planet is so woefully and culturally nescient and steeped in dark-age double-standards.

  3. jim ·

    If you believe you have God on your side, then your own prejudices become God's prejudices. There is no compromise when you believe you speak on *behalf* of God.

  4. paul ·

    That is so ridiculous. I hope terrorists show up at Qualcomm.

  5. jim ·

    Al-Gayda: Gay terrorists! With rainbow bombs!

  6. dragonlady7 ·

    So I was at a roller derby leaguemate's house last night and found out she was from Connecticut, and congratulated her on her state legalizing gay marriage. "Really!" she said. (She's lived in Cheektowaga for 13 years, so she doesn't exactly have her finger on the pulse of Hartford at this point.) "How funny. CT is odd because it's so liberal on some things, but Puritan on others." "Oh exactly," I said. "That's New England. Nobody ever gets to be drunk or naked ever ever, but equal rights for all!!!"

    I sort of love New England and sort of hate it. (I grew up on the MA/VT/NY border, right where they all kinda intersect.)

  7. james ·

    I fucking hate people.

  8. drew ·

    Why not Canada? Some friends of mine went there to wed.

  9. jim ·

    I want to get married in my own country. I don't want to feel like a fugitive.

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