[click image, now that I've finally fixed the link. Sorry.]I'm sorry, but I cannot have faith in whatever arguments were put before them. It seems they were doing their "conservative" reading thing again, but forgetting the Federal Law that overrides State Law in certain areas... civil rights being one of them. Maybe I don't have enough faith in my own take on it... and that is that a civil union is, or can be, perfectly workable enough for every right that has been denied gay couples, and even if the State doesn't call it "marriage", it functions as such and doesn't prohibit you calling it whatever you damn well please. Anyway, I'm bugged about this. It feels completely like the court caving in to right wing crazies.
It's a STUPID non-issue issue to begin with and takes up way too much of everyone's brains.
Few seem to realize the positive effects of ripping this and other wedges from the clutches of politicians and Bible thumpers alike, which makes me want to tear out my hair.
Malformed link behind your picture - too many "h"s.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that Prop 8 is illegal in that it changes the State Constitution. This can only be done through the legislature, not through the initiative process.
ReplyDeleteSo how does the court construe it as legal?
That was my understanding too, but I have not been paying close attention, and the court may have chosen to look at it as a straight ballot initiative rather than a constitutional amendment. It is an unconstitutional ballot initiative. I don't know how it was argued, but it can't ACTUALLY legally stand in any event.... They may let/make it stand illegally, but it is unconstitutional. There may be wiggle room if domestic partnerships are made exactly comparable to marriage rights... and I think they mentioned something like that. That would make it so there IS no discrimination, just a different wording. Which should be fine for everyone. I'm too pissed off about being made to pay any attention to this crap to look into it.
ReplyDeleteThe progressive state of California again!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I thought California was progressive. At closer look: think again!
Religion don't matter.
ReplyDeleteWe got to stop this fucking Democrat vs. Republican shit.
Get both of them out of our government.
They have proven beyond doubt they are miserable failures.
Here's a strange insight, if you dare...
It's Alex Jones interviewing Kevin Treudeau. You remember the book guy on tv? Did you know he's a billionaire, and a low level Bilderburg, and he was at Bilderburg 2009 in Greece?
He covers shit like what they are scared of, what they control, how we can fight back. I think it's worth your time to grab it. Hopefully you can p2p or has the fascism blocked that at your ISP? -- I feel for ya.
http://www.torrentzap.com/torrent/383255/Alex+Jones+Show+2009+05+26-sig_garrett
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Dammit! They never made a torrent thing that worked on my Mac and it creeped me out anyway. Crazy as Jones is, I really WOULD have liked to see that! Can't you upload it to something and link it?
ReplyDeleteI think I just got it on YouTube. Today's broadcast?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOTTp5zwxM&feature=PlayList&p=5AFEB9C6ACF94A99&index=0
That's it.
ReplyDeleteI dunno why I didn't think to check youtube.
The torrent was hella busy though. I think it got swarmed.
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If you still have problems, I can pkzip the whole thing up... (Alex also said we can USE IT anywhere we want, he want's us to distribute it)
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing was only 48,170,493 bytes. (48MB)
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