The evangelical lie about gay marriage.

I voted NO on Prop 8.

I'm not gay, but I voted no on prop 8. I didn't vote to support gay marriage; I voted NO so PEOPLE could have the right to be happy living with and married to whomever they want. Prop 8 has nothing to do with exposing children to the gay life style. Don't worry; your children are going to learn about gays if you like it are not. They are going to learn about it the way most of us so called adults did when we were kids, from rumors that float about in the boys' and girls' locker room. They are going to learn about it from their friends. They are going to learn about it from other family members. They are going to learn about it from the Internet, from the movies, from novels. And they are learning about it more so because of prop 8. They are going to learn about it and you can't stop that.

Prop 8 was a vote to take away rights. For those of you who are not gay, what do you care if gays marry? Ask yourselves how is it going to affect your relationship with your husband or wife? How will it affect your paycheck? Men and women who want to marry are going to do so and making gay marriage legal is not going to stop that. To add, how do you know if those two guys you see sitting across from each other having coffee at a café are gay or not. How do you know and what does it matter?

What these evangelicals have done is damn dear unforgivable; they used children to get people in California to vote to take the right for a person to be happy away. That's out right scummy. This is not about exposing children to the gay lifestyle, it's about the human hart and the right to love and be in love. Gays are people. They are not animals. They are human beings like everyone who reads this Blog. Jesus loves them and died for them on the cross too. And I want to see proof where kindergarten children in Massachusetts were given books about a prince married a prince. The Los Angeles Unified School District has not, and never has taught the gay lifestyle after gay marriage was made legal in the state or before it was legal in the state of California. Teachers here don't teach gay subject matter if there is such a thing in classrooms; nor e will they be forced to. Your child is learning about the gay life style without the need for it to be taught by the school system. And what business does the church have poking its snout in the classroom?

What's all this about, "If gay marriage becomes legal in your state, your right to object on religious or moral grounds gets shoved aside faster than it took to hang Saddam." Where did that silly idea come from? Who's religion and who's moral? Who morality is all this based on? Oh yeah, the evangelical Christians. They are the ones trying to shove their eligious belief up every ones rump by turning their idea of morality into laws they can force  on people if they like it are not. Who's rights will they try to get you the voter to take away next? What about those here in American who have the RIGHT not to believe in God. Are we going to vote in a law that forces them to go to church? Yes, let's vote in a law that says Atheists can't marry because they don't believe in God. Let's put a law on the books  that takes away the right for Jews to marry because they don't believe in Jesus. I'm sure evangelical Christians would love to do that. Gay marriage is not going to lay the groundwork for you not to be able to teach your child what's right and what's wrong. It's not going to lay the ground work to take away your right to home school your child or send your child to a private school.

Please show me were Gay's are teaching intolerance when they are often the ones subjected to hate crimes. And I don't think being gay is a lifestyle choice. Next time you run into some who say they are gay, ask them if that was a choice they made one day out of the blue. You can say gays want something that they are not supposed to have. Well,
let's turn the clock back 70 years. For those of you who do not know, just about every state in the Union and that included liberal California had laws on the books that made it illegal for Blacks and Whites to marry. That law which is a Jim Crow law was overturned. Just
think how that Black White couple back in 1940 felt when you had a law that said they want something that they are not supposed to have, the right to be together and be happy. Did the nation fall when Blacks and Whites married and had children, it did not. And look at the product of such a unions, our current new president, Obama is the product of a Black man and a White women and is viewed as the next F.D.R. That old Jim Crow law, just like prop 8 was based on hate. Prop 8 is a hate law. It's a law that gives evangelicals Christians the legal right to hate based on the moral views.

If a true marriage is one that takes place in front of an ordained minister of any denomination that calls upon God, then what of gay churches? Yes you do have them. Or  Red Letter Christian churches where the love and teaching of Christ is taught and are open to all people based on his teaching. What about all the other non Christian faiths
and their right to wed. Are those unions illegal?

What these evangelicals Christians have done is opened a can or worms. This is going to make its way to the US Supreme Court, and I am willing to bet money the Supreme Court will overturn prop 8's passage. What evangelicals Christians have done, and they don't know it, is put religion on trial. This is the century where the world is going to
have to come to terms with religion.

I have better things to do that worry about two rusty men having sex.
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This is so funny: from a friend and neighbor working to turn Virginia blue... Dear Red States, If you manage to steal this election, too, we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Virginia, and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California. To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share. Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths to suit Bush's needs, and they demand you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up,but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire. With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92%of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92%of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties. Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico Peace out, Blue States

TO ALL BLACK REPUBLICANS They have told you the Democratic Party is the party of the slave masters; it was. They have told you the Democratic Party takes the Black community for granted, it never did. They have told you the Democratic created the KKK, it did not. Please note, the party GOP says takes Blacks for granted, the Democratic Party, the party of the old 19th century slave owners has sent a Black man to the white house. The party of the old slave masters has made a Black man the leader of the free world. The party of the old slave masters has made a Black man commander and chief of the most powerful army in the world. On January 20th, 2009 a Black man will take the oath of office on the very steps that were built by slaves of old. What as the GOP done for the Black community? Scorpius--

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The only thing this silly woman is upset over is the fact her side is losing. The Republican Party cannot govern and they have proved it. Yes, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg jump all over her because because her own political part put them in a position to do so. I watch the view from time to time and notice how this woman will believe every lie that comes out of Mc Cain’s mouth and every lie that the GOP tries to push on the public. The media has come out and said Obama did not try to get a bill passed to teach sex education to 5 year olds, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck bought that lie that he did hook line and sinker. One a personal note, I would love to see her leave The View. When I watch the show I all ways pick up a sense of hate and anger from her. Take time the next time you watch and note when the chat moves into an area that makes common sense, something Joy and Whoopi agree with, the Hasselbeck gets upset. The other reason the woman get upset is because 95% of the time the audience agrees with Joy and Whoopi. Scorpius--

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... * If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.' * Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story. * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. * Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick. * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded. * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive. * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian. * If you teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society. * If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible. * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's. * If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group until 2002 that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable. OK, much clearer now.