Armageddon is Two Men in Love, Evidently

Lots of folks heard their first word about Prop 8 this week.

Reason being, when the Proposition was initially passed

in California, it was to discriminate against gay men

and lesbian women. This week's ruling (by the U.S. Ninth

Circuit Court of Appeals) was in favor of we queers' rights

to be treated equally under the law, and therefore

you couldn't have heard a cannon over the uproar of

duplicitous pastors and right wing demagogues!

All the Republican candidate wannabes were livid

and crazed by the news (YES, MORESO THAN USUAL!

Be AFRAID!) citing (irrationally and unfoundedly) that this was

more work of liberal courts. You know; 'Decision I like, good...

decision I don't like, bad!'

At least all the schmucks could stop throwing stones at

one another's insipid lameness and evil long enough to agree

to be unjustifiably afraid of the queers. Ahh, togetherness.

So, the problems with Prop 8, which limited marriage

the institution to a man and a woman, were endless.

First, it was brought to the voters by special interest groups

that were largely funded by out of state churches, notably

the screwy Mormons.

Um...out of state....churches deciding law.....

etc, etc.

Second, the controversial legislation only passed by a slim

52%, showing how divided the state was, and the Proposition

was ruled unconstitutional fairly quickly by a federal judge.

The cry-baby zealots and conservatives appealed the

ruling, which led to the appeals court upholding it

(the decision that was handed down this week.)

Third, in the trials, to attempt to prove

the 'merit' and 'need' (ha ha!)

for banning gay men and lesbian women from

marrying, there was so much misinformation, lies,

and insanity brought forth from the 'religious sorts'

who opposed gays marrying that yet more

problems ensued.

Finally, as if that weren't enough,

the people who testified wanted no part

of their testimony made public, and tried to keep

 transcripts, video, or any talk of the proceedings from being

open! There has been an additional battle to

release these tapes, (which has since been ordered,)

since the method of how all this took place

was so backwards and hateful and unscientific. (Go figure!)

There is still possibility of appeal against the overturning

of Prop 8,

as well as appeal of the video recordings being released.

Oh, and we didn't even get into the psychological

lacking that drives someone to become obsessed with

trying to legislate their limited, inane view of 'morality.'

What exactly are these wing nuts so afraid of?

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