I went to the local Baptist Preacher's blog and wrote something mean aabout the Yes on 8 crowd. I said they were idiots. I want to apologize. To idiots. I wasn't thinking. The issue that provoked it was the constant barrage of TV ads. Every kid in California has had more hours of gay wedding ed. from "their" commercials than they ever would in school. So, I'm sorry to all the idiots out there, I didn't mean to color you with hate like the Yes on 8 crowd.
Also- Lying with another man is an abomination in Leviticus, so is eating shell fish. In Deuteronomy it's sleeping with your ex-wife. Get over it, Jesus don't like you stoning that adulteress, or those gays.
And nothing in the old testament against Lesbians, is there?
If you look at the ads over there on the left, you might see ProtectMarriage.com.
Don't hesitate to click on the ad, they have to pay me if you do. If you can stomach going through the web site, find where to add your name to the list of supporters, then put Hannibal Lechter or Charlie Manson. It's fun and good for the environment!

I spent a few hours last night working the phone banks, calling voters to ask them to vote No on prop 8 in November. It was very nice to find more folks taking a stand for freedom and fairness than the few endorsing prop 8. The vast majority of course were "not home." I've been "not home" alot lately too. I think this issue is too important to duck out of the conversation though. The other side on this seems to be too wicked to let it go. From the tactics of stealing my NO on 8 lawn sign (on Sunday morning!) to the violence against children prop 8 leads to, it just needs to be stopped.
Some folks have a little trouble following the violence against children, and death of children trail. Proposition 8 will make gay and lesbian people less than straight people in the eyes of the Constitution of the State of California. They won't have as many rights as other people. Like pets. So when you can't kick a citizen, and you get pissed off, you kick a pet. or a gay.
School kids have a tendancy to bully. 9 out of 10 kids who identify as gay get bullied. That is the violence that is endorsed by prop 8. Unfortunately it doesn't stop there. Bullied kids act out. they may get a gun and take vengeance on their oppressors, but that's very rare. More often they get a gun and put it to their own head. That's the death of children part of a yes on 8 vote.
If for a moment you think that the Yes crowd cares about the children they are exploiting, I can assure you that more children have learned about gay marriage from their TV ads than ever will in school. They just don't care.
No on 8 = no on hate.

I’m taking a break from the campaign to go back to the roots of this blog. The news that caught my eye is the pair of grannies that were fighting crime and winning. A 68 year old retired nurse was sitting on a park bench when a trio of youths grabbed her purse and ran. She ran after them, and being a county champion in cross country in her youth, had the speed to catch up and grab one of the boys. He was so surprised he dropped the bag. I don’t recommend it, but it worked for her. The other is a 72 year old who got a phone call asking grandma not to tell but her grandson needed some bail money. She was almost victim to a scam where the bad guys call random numbers until they get a older adult, then they say Grandma I need help. Usually the sympathetic elder asks “Johnny, is that you?” giving the crook a clue to use in gaining her confidence and getting as much as five thousand dollars wired to him. Delpha Speak of Missouri called the jail where her grandson was supposed to be incarcerated and they told her it was a scam. Congratulations to these two crimefighters! And vote no on 8.

The proponents of proposition 8 have been citing Massachusetts as a case example of how things “go wrong” with same sex marriage. I heard a story this week of a couple, trying to get married in Boston and the obstacles they encountered. A couple, who were graduate students at Smith College in the schools of social work wanted to get married. They applied for a license, and since it was recently made clear that they could legally marry, they set out to find an officient. They called church after church, recruited friends to call too, and after explaining the situation, they were turned down time after time. No one would perform the ceremony. Finally a Unitarian Universalist agreed and performed the wedding. Now the story may not seem too remarkable, except to show that California ministers aren’t any more obliged to marry folks than they were before. Many ministers will only marry a couple who are members of the church, have gone through training in the church or agree to conditions like raising children within the faith. No requirement to marry anyone who comes in the door.
The difference is in the details. The story happened in 1965. The couple were a man and a woman, but he was African American and she was white. Sounds ridiculous now. In forty years, the whole furor over same sex marriage is going to seem just as stupid. We don’t force acceptance of, teach school children, deny tax exempt status or any of the other “Yes on Prop 8” fantasy claims around inter- racial marriage do we? It won’t happen with same sex marriage either.