WTF California???
I'm overjoyed that Obama won! I was with a large group of folks last night all cheering at the TV for hours. It was great.
But then we turned on the laptop and pulled up the ballot measure results. We approved too many bond measures on a deficit in both the state and local voting. Thank goodness we voted to make a dent in improving factory farming practices, and narrowly, to keep minors from running to have back alley abortions because they're afraid to tell their parents - I mean Palin's daughter has truly proved the benefits of abstinence education. So were the proponents of this bill really thinking that parental notification was going to lower teenage pregnancy.
But Prop 8??? We just changed the California constitution - the courts can't intervene and I am truly ashamed. Yes on 8 even called my home yesterday, misappropriating an Obama quote for their cause. How the hell does it hurt the interior of the state of California if a man and a man or a woman and a woman enter a partnership to stay together for life (or at least as long as the average straight couple - what's the divorce rate really?) and share their home and support eachother financially, physically, and emotionally. Will it hurt all those spinach growers when a gay couple throws a dinner party featuring their crop, or those winery owners when a gay marriage celebration pours their wine?
I am in a union. My partner happens to be male. The state of Massachusetts gave us a certificate. It happens to say marriage license at the top. I would be happy if they took it back and wrote civil union or state partnership or something representing what it is. We're not married in the eyes of any lord(s). We're married in the eyes of the government so we can pay taxes together, run a single household where economics can be mixed, and so we had an excuse to have a big party. Oh and it doesn't hurt that I wear a ring so I can shove it in the faces of skeazy guys when they hit on me. I don't know if the solution is to have each church call it what it is in their eyes but then let the government define partnerships under a separate name. Every married couple has to file legal as well as religious documents. Could we relabel the legal ones to call it what it is? That probably wouldn't solve the problem because there are too many close minded people out there,, but it would live up to the separation of church and state that is mandated. I want to be united - I call it marriage out of habit, but I don't need to be married. I need to be bonded, because it's important to us and it gives us rights in the eyes of the government, but certainly not any religious institution or entity.
But then we turned on the laptop and pulled up the ballot measure results. We approved too many bond measures on a deficit in both the state and local voting. Thank goodness we voted to make a dent in improving factory farming practices, and narrowly, to keep minors from running to have back alley abortions because they're afraid to tell their parents - I mean Palin's daughter has truly proved the benefits of abstinence education. So were the proponents of this bill really thinking that parental notification was going to lower teenage pregnancy.
But Prop 8??? We just changed the California constitution - the courts can't intervene and I am truly ashamed. Yes on 8 even called my home yesterday, misappropriating an Obama quote for their cause. How the hell does it hurt the interior of the state of California if a man and a man or a woman and a woman enter a partnership to stay together for life (or at least as long as the average straight couple - what's the divorce rate really?) and share their home and support eachother financially, physically, and emotionally. Will it hurt all those spinach growers when a gay couple throws a dinner party featuring their crop, or those winery owners when a gay marriage celebration pours their wine?
I am in a union. My partner happens to be male. The state of Massachusetts gave us a certificate. It happens to say marriage license at the top. I would be happy if they took it back and wrote civil union or state partnership or something representing what it is. We're not married in the eyes of any lord(s). We're married in the eyes of the government so we can pay taxes together, run a single household where economics can be mixed, and so we had an excuse to have a big party. Oh and it doesn't hurt that I wear a ring so I can shove it in the faces of skeazy guys when they hit on me. I don't know if the solution is to have each church call it what it is in their eyes but then let the government define partnerships under a separate name. Every married couple has to file legal as well as religious documents. Could we relabel the legal ones to call it what it is? That probably wouldn't solve the problem because there are too many close minded people out there,, but it would live up to the separation of church and state that is mandated. I want to be united - I call it marriage out of habit, but I don't need to be married. I need to be bonded, because it's important to us and it gives us rights in the eyes of the government, but certainly not any religious institution or entity.