I should've stopped to talk to them

[yarnaddict]

I saw a group of people supporting "Yes on 8" this morning, at the corner of Calvine and Elk Grove-Florin down here in South Sacramento. They had a banner that read (something close to) "Conditioning children is their goal. Saving them is ours."

I almost stopped. I almost turned my car around and went back to actually talk to these people, and

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[elisandra]

I got the saddest/happiest news the other day. Our choir director and his boyfriend got married last week. I was so happy to hear this that I jumped up and down. But my joy was quickly diminished when they told me that they weren't going to announce it... because they didn't think everyone in the group would feel comfortable with that information

[hastings1066]

One conclusion I've come to recently is that GenX needs to shrug off the role of apathetic rebel, and become "knowledgeable conspirator" informing GenY what to blow up, because they don't have enough context to choose the right target half the time. We are old enough to have the context of the last 25 years (in addition to how to apply that information to the last n thousand years of human history). I believe the epistemological world calls these "teaching moments." :D

[vida_boheme]

I'm surfing by on friends-friends list - I hope you don't mind me commenting.

I'm sorry on behalf of my pig-ignorant het-centric peers :( it must be hard to face this kind of bullshit and not feel that it's sucking the joy out of something that should be a joy - love and family.

I'm conditioning my children: I'm conditioning them to know that you fall in love with a person not the design of their personal plumbing; that gender is just a description, not an obligation and that love is a gift wherever you may find it. I think there is something emotionally dead inside people who can only see their relationship as right and special by seeking to make it appear legally and morally superior - me thinks they doth protest too much...

Good luck to you and your family, and I'm hoping for a hearty HELL NO on prop 8.