Not all of you, just those of you protesting and blocking intersections and roughing up old ladies and boycotting Utah:
STFU and listen to this guy. And this guy. Yeah, you're unhappy and I understand that, but right now you are starting to piss off the fence sitters and even your supporters like me.
You are your own worst enemy. Well, if what little I've read about some marginal fringe group called "Bash Back" is anywhere near accurate, they are probably your worst enemy, and you should strongly consider bashing them right back before they set back the cause even more than you yourselves seem to be intent on setting it back.
Iz out!
2 months ago
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Amen! I was/am wholeheartedly a No on 8 supporter. But these people are NOT HELPING.
I don't care one way or the other: if you feel married, no individual, official, or law can tell you otherwise. If you don't, no piece of paper can change that. And no piece of paper can make anyone else think a gay couple is married if they're against it. One of my best friends is a gay man that wants nothing more than a happy marriage and children (and no, he's not the catcher).
That said, I am against activist judges legislating from the bench. And I don't like the spoiled child behavior activist groups display, throwing larger and louder and more violent tantrums to get their way. I'm prone to get childish right back--I'd have probably voted for Prop 8 just from sheer, bloody minded rebelliousness, if I lived in CA.
My general attitude is that I don't care what two adults do. If a couple wishes to consider themselves married, I don't care anymore. Do whatever floats your boat. Just don't describe your sex life to me. And that goes for hetero couples as much as gay couples.
My one quibble with designating it "marriage" for legal reasons is that that, I fear, opens the door for the government to someday tell the Catholic church, or conservative Jewish groups, or conservative Protestant groups, "Perform gay marriages or risk losing your tax exempt status."
I have no problem with domestic partnerships, civil unions, whatever. I wouldn't even have an issue with officially calling gay marriage by the name marriage except for the concern that some activist judges could use it as a way to either force religious groups to go against their beliefs or risk penalty.
But I am so so sick of the tantrum-protests. Okay, you didn't get what you wanted. Do you think acting like 2-year-olds are going to change the minds of the people who voted for Prop 8?
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