Reply With QuoteAmerica is still full of bigots and rubes.
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Prop 8 passed.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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America is still full of bigots and rubes.
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It all passed by a 4 point margin. This is going to be fought again for a long time, until a measure is passed allowing it again.
It is just amazing, the cruelty of men. These people had waited their entire life to get married, and then ignorance just takes it away. This is not only wrong, this is evil.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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i agree, this is the big downer to come out of yesterday. here's the good news - the way your generation doesn't see race the same way my generation and older did/does, they don't give a shit about orientation either. so this has only one direction to go in, and that's forward.
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It seems like they could successfully challenge it in the courts somehow...maybe.
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The state constitution blocks any talk about the issue, and federal courts have had their jurisidction stripped.Originally Posted by ib1yysguy
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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Young voters voted against it in bigger numbers than older voters.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
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But Washington state passed assisted suicide ?
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
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I'm stunned.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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Black voters voted in favor of it by a very wide margin.
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Nope. Not in California, I'm afraid. You see, we (foolishly) allow our state constitution to be amended by a simple majority vote. This mean-spirited piece of bigotry is now written into the constitution.
It's not a coincidence that our state constitution is by far the longest of the fifty. It's over 150 pages long when printed in 10 point type and it grows with every election.
Two years from now we'll come back with an amendment negating this one, you watch. And every two years afterwards until it comes out right . . . after which the other side will do the same.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
-- V
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You can negate an amendment with an amendment?
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yes I expect so and it will last quite a while living in a blue state and all that.
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
Watermelon
Of course. Consider, for example, the 18th and 21st amendments to the U.S. constitution: the 21st explicitly repeals the 18th (prohibition of alcohol).
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
-- V
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Don't worry Watermark, keep up the fight. Someday you'll be able to marry the man you love.
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