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[baxil]

Here in California, even though the anti-gay Proposition 8 passed, the fight continues. The latest news is that the state Supreme Court will hear the petitions asking it to consider whether Prop 8 violated the procedure for changing the California Constitution.

Others are on top of this -- including maradydd, who has some legal analyses worth noting

Comments

[eclective]

My immediate reaction to this: "omgwtfpumpkins. I have nothing against her religious beliefs, but using them to attempt to invalidate others' civil rights is an unfair tactic."

My secondary reaction to this: "...wait, that's what this whole Prop 8 mess is about anyway."

It's hilarious-- I lol'ed, and passed it on-- and yet at the same time I don't think we should forget that at current, people in California are struggling to earn equal rights because of a two-thousand-year-old book filled with inconsistencies and historial inaccuracies that some people treat as more accurate than scientific analyses of the world. No offence to Christians reading this post; I am fine with your religion, and I respect the Bible as a signpost to spirituality, as something that, regardless of its historical accuracy, can inspire us to higher thoughts (and I believe that's the point of it; that the point never was to religiously, pun not intended, adhere to its every word as if it were a manual for life, but to be moved by it, to obtain glimpses of the divine through its poetry). But if we don't think Bear-Monkey-Creationist-Woman's beliefs are reason enough to remove civil rights, we shouldn't presume mainstream Christian beliefs to be any more so.

I think people forget that Christianity, even setting aside this sort of stuff, is pretty weird at its base. We're so used to hearing the old stories that they don't strike us as strange, but most of mainstream Christian doctrine is every bit as strange as "humans were made when God put bear souls into monkeys". Or... monkey souls into bears, or whatever the heck is going on here.