1. riverboy remarks:
   Sign seen at NYC Prop 8 protest:

   “WE ALL CAN’T MARRY LIZA MINNELLI”

   
   

   November 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
2. Nightcharm remarks:
   Scenes from a protest

   

   

   

   

   

   hattip to Join the Impact

   
   

   November 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
3. DON'T TREAD ON US, MOTHERFUCKERS! remarks:
   This article in the NYT (link) convinced me that the Mormon Church, more than any other church group involved, worked overtime to take rights away from gay people. They are a proper focus for boycotts and protests.

   The following is a list of organizations from the facebook people who organized yesterday’s Prop 8 protests, Join the impact. Here is a list of business that are either owned by the Mormon church outright; owned, founded or run by Mormons in executive positions (a portion of whose salary is tithed to the church); or in which the church owns a large percentage of stock.

   (The list of names that followed in the original comment was found to be bogus. For a more accurate list, see the comment below from Drub — Editor.)

   
   

   November 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
4. you don't get it! remarks:
   Seeing to all of the anger and hate about only getting 48% of the vote here in CA has made me realize that WE NEED TO LISTEN and then formulate a strategy that will move us forward, not just pitch temper tantrums about how stupid and wrong everyone else is.

   The constant protests and finger pointing won’t convince anyone to support our cause!

   
   

   November 17th, 2008 at 7:46 am
5. Drub remarks:
   Please review that list and see that it’s apocryphal. It’s a list being circulated by some anonymous dweeb on Craiglist. You have the internet at your fingertips - do the damn research! Dell Computers? C’mon. Really, now.

   May I direct your attention to the Californians Against Hate site (link)
   Focus on the list there. It’s real with cold hard facts - in cash.

   Direct your attention on the Mormon Church. It’s low-hanging fruit and an easy target that will send shockwaves and sound a warning call through the rest of the Religious Right in this country. They. Must. Fall. Pin them with the freaky American style cult of grand proportions that they really are. Funny underwear? Polygamy? American Indians as the Lost Tribe of Judea? They should have their 501(e) status revoked for interfering on such a grand scale with politics. According to the New York Times, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also made up 80 to 90 percent of volunteers who went door to door in election precincts. Reportedly, members of California wards were assigned two zip codes each. Also in training documents, and according to the Times, LDS members were classified as:

   “Walkers” - those who knocked on doors

   “Sellers” - who dealt with undecided voters

   and “Closers” - who got people to the polls on election day.

   If this isn’t cause enough - I don’t know what is. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

   
   

   November 17th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
6. tony remarks:
   the Mormom “church” did this in hawai’i on 1990s - poured in Millions of dollars and manipulated the wording on ballot after the Supreme Court ruled that (of course!) any citizen has a right to marry, or anythings else.

   Fact: Utah has highest DIVORCE rate in US. Massachusetts has the LOWEST.

   
   

   November 18th, 2008 at 2:26 am
7. Sam remarks:
   Actually, I think this law will be struck down the the Cali Supreme Court. There is a strong legal argument particularly the way California’s laws are set up, against a simple majority of votes required to change the state constitution. It’s a farce. By this means, theoretically, they could have a majority to prohibit gays from voting, owning land, publishing books…etc, in a similar way the nazi’s outlawed jewish activity in Berlin. Because,..there’s nothing in any law which specifically allows “gay” men or women to do any of these things. So really, thousands of law removing rights for gay individuals would be possible, if not for the fact that the the spirit of the Constitution should prohibit that.

   The whole POINT of Federal and State Constitutions are to protect rights, not eliminate them, and protect minorities because they can never reach 51 percent.

   Most anti-gay people would balk at referendums to remove other such rights from gays, even if they dislike gays, because if flies in the face of other sentiments they have which allow for fairness in voting, and the ability to freely live for the most part. Yet, it’s the same concept. The only reason they say “yeah!” to take away marriage rights is because it’s an emotional issue, and their judgement is clouded.

   
   

   November 21st, 2008 at 10:55 am
8. Sam remarks:
   I love the signs, btw.

   
   

   November 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am
9. T.D.McKinney remarks:
   May the CA Supreme Court do the right thing and strike down this vile law. And do it soon. That first photo makes me ashamed to live in DFW.

   
   

   November 24th, 2008 at 9:42 am
10. Phil remarks:
    i thought respect had to be EARNED. respect isn’t something everyone is entitled to.

    
    

    December 12th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

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