Or, you know, maybe the religious right is out to get him because (according to his quote in the picture) he wants to tell the religious right "F--- em" and "Drop Dead".
Saying that "Republicans" are afraid he'll make it more difficult to bully children for being gay is like saying that "Democrats" (Blue Dogs) won't pass healthcare because it will cost too much money.
@snachodog: except we now have a chart that showed 70% or more of the party WAS of the "crazy sub group" ceasing to make it a sub group (like the blue dogs, or the loonies who thing 9/11 was a inside job) and actually making the Republican party, in fact the "fringe" these days.
Holy crap. This guy sounds so amazing. Would I choose him to guide our children? Hell yes. I want him to be my mentor. Each quotation is more awesome than the last. I want to go to the beach with him and watch the planes.
I thought McCarthyism was never supposed to come back. Who knew that its return would in large part be the result of Fox News whipping up hysteria to increase ratings.
I'm not sure why you have a problem with an administration that follows its own stated policy to obey the law. Since when is "but the Bush adminstration got to break curfew and get drunk and screw around" any basis for a moral position?
@lacieca01: but now it is OUR turn to run things... oh yeah, that is exactly where partisan politics come from. thank you for saying that, you make an excellent point.
The Attorney General appoints special prosecutors and independent counsels; The Bush White House was rightly tarred because they used DoJ as part of their political wing. Justice may be part of the executive branch, but they're confirmed by the Senate and charged with enforcing the law of the land. I really don't think I'd like it, if an appointed official or an underling lawyer was given the power of a pocket veto.
Though, now that they have better guidance, perhaps they'll fall back toward the "don't pursue" method applied to medical marijuana and in the meantime, hopefully activists will keep trying to change the law.
This is bullshit. The Courage Campaign put out a call to raise funds for a 2010 repeal effort and raised more than $70,000 in 24 hours. Equality California are the same idiots who ran the failed No on 8 campaign last fall. Why the fuck should we listen to them?
@downlow: I'm with Courage Campaign. Seriously, Equality California are the geniuses who felt that ads that actually featured loving gay couples would turn people off. Enough of the internalized homophobia. I don't know, maybe I don't have the right to say this because I'm straight, but I really think this is deeply wrong.
@MissNormaDesmond: Me, too. And you just threw off my whole Gawker commenter theory about feminine sounding monikers being gay guys. Well, like I said in college, the haters need to realize that there are plenty of us heteros who will stand up for gay rights! (And if you call me "gay" for standing up for my friends or family it doesn't scare me or offend me. Think I'm gay, I don't care about that. Just realize that people who aren't gay support the gays!)
As someone who is unable to marry her girlfriend because of California's laws and who would marry her girlfriend if it were legal ... I actually don't think this is so bad.
Look, mid-year election turnout is always quite low. Those that do vote are the same ones who voted yes on Prop. 8 in the first place. The legalization of gay marriage is heavily dependent on getting a population to vote who normally does not vote. It would be a Sisyphean task to try to pass a repeal or a new constitutional amendment in California during a mid-year cycle.
Although I care deeply and personally about this issue, I'm also ok with fighting the good fight in 2012 when we're that much more likely to succeed than to suffer another defeat in 2010. Besides, it's not like the federal government would recognize our marriage...
@BowieCadmium: Equality California, to be clear, were the people who brought us this confusing, bizarre, pointless ad^
I'm sorry, but having seen the results of the best thinking of these people last fall, I'm not prone to trust their judgment. I have the e-mail that tells how they gathered their data, but it sort of blows my mind that they never took one simple step: they never asked their membership what they felt about the effort. I've been getting e-mails from them all year, and not once did they ask, "What do you think? Should we move in 2010 or 2012?" Instead, they make this top-down, authoritarian announcement from on high, and actually promote it to news outlets as if someone had anointed them the decision-makers for all gay people and straight supporters in California.
It's the same paternalistic, "we know best" approach that they took last fall, except they didn't know best, and we got our ass kicked. Instead of learning from that and developing some humility, they seem to have become that much more entrenched in their attitude.
When I watched "Milk", I cried in frustration, not only from my grief at having lost this wonderful man, but because he showed us thirty years ago that we could take on the forces of homophobia and intolerance and win, by running a passionate, well-organized grassroots effort. Courage Campaign has been doing this, and I don't know why Equality California wouldn't want to.
@MissNormaDesmond: I agree with you. I don't think that the decision to wait until 2012 was based in any sort of logic, but rather an inability to get their shit together. Thank you for saying this.
*sigh. The california gays, while great people, couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.
I went to one of the LGBT meetings in Oceanside where a friend of mine was getting honored for some work she did at school promoting tolerance, and the whole thing was a joke. If you ran a business like they run their society, you'd end up broke.
@m4ximusprim3: I am pretty sure that picture is from Gainesville, FL and that I know that guy. He was bragging all over the place that he'd done that and that the pic was all over the internet.
They are constantly approaching me in San Diego parking lots. I thought they wanted signatures, but they want money. A lot. As in hundreds of dollars. I was like, "Serially?" On the other hand, I myself don’t have any great ideas about it.
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The Attorney General appoints special prosecutors and independent counsels; The Bush White House was rightly tarred because they used DoJ as part of their political wing. Justice may be part of the executive branch, but they're confirmed by the Senate and charged with enforcing the law of the land. I really don't think I'd like it, if an appointed official or an underling lawyer was given the power of a pocket veto.
Though, now that they have better guidance, perhaps they'll fall back toward the "don't pursue" method applied to medical marijuana and in the meantime, hopefully activists will keep trying to change the law.
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Look, mid-year election turnout is always quite low. Those that do vote are the same ones who voted yes on Prop. 8 in the first place. The legalization of gay marriage is heavily dependent on getting a population to vote who normally does not vote. It would be a Sisyphean task to try to pass a repeal or a new constitutional amendment in California during a mid-year cycle.
Although I care deeply and personally about this issue, I'm also ok with fighting the good fight in 2012 when we're that much more likely to succeed than to suffer another defeat in 2010. Besides, it's not like the federal government would recognize our marriage...
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I'm sorry, but having seen the results of the best thinking of these people last fall, I'm not prone to trust their judgment. I have the e-mail that tells how they gathered their data, but it sort of blows my mind that they never took one simple step: they never asked their membership what they felt about the effort. I've been getting e-mails from them all year, and not once did they ask, "What do you think? Should we move in 2010 or 2012?" Instead, they make this top-down, authoritarian announcement from on high, and actually promote it to news outlets as if someone had anointed them the decision-makers for all gay people and straight supporters in California.
It's the same paternalistic, "we know best" approach that they took last fall, except they didn't know best, and we got our ass kicked. Instead of learning from that and developing some humility, they seem to have become that much more entrenched in their attitude.
When I watched "Milk", I cried in frustration, not only from my grief at having lost this wonderful man, but because he showed us thirty years ago that we could take on the forces of homophobia and intolerance and win, by running a passionate, well-organized grassroots effort. Courage Campaign has been doing this, and I don't know why Equality California wouldn't want to.
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I went to one of the LGBT meetings in Oceanside where a friend of mine was getting honored for some work she did at school promoting tolerance, and the whole thing was a joke. If you ran a business like they run their society, you'd end up broke.
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