i'm more pissed than i was 10 minutes ago
there was an amendment up for vote in florida this week that is supposed to define marriage. voting "yes" for the amendment means that you define marriage as a union between a man and woman, voting no means no **bleep**.
at 10:41pm, 62% of the votes (4 million) came in "yes."
the wording on the ballot:
"This amendment protects marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and provides that no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.
The direct financial impact this amendment will have on the state and local government revenues and expenditures cannot be determined, but is expected to be minor."
this is fucking retarded and pisses me off. how is this not discrimination? why would any black person, or any minority for that matter, possibly feel good about themselves voting yes? i don't have a clue. also, what does a "religious" ceremony have to do with governmental politics?
not only is it not recognizing gay marriage as a religious union, they're also not allowing rights for a civil union...which means that they can't share health benefits (unless it comes through the workplace), which is can really suck.
it's like people just need to be angry, and since white people can't hate blacks and hispanics, instead of doing something useful, we just muck it up for the gays. makes no sense. none at all.
meanwhile, obama is the new president. let's hope the idiot rednecks that hate gays and blacks don't go and try to assasinate our first black president. it would be the watts riots across the entire country.