Politics. Sigh. RRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrRRRrrrRRRrrrrrRRrRRrRRrR

[summer_jackel]

FYI for those of you not in CA: Measure 8 is the bit of evilness on the ballot now that would nullify same-sex marriages and prevent future ones in our beautiful state. I'm tucked away in a happy little liberal oasis and so I have been spared seeing the vomit-worthy 'Yes on 8' signs anywhere near my home until today. *

I'm trying to decide whether stealing all of these signs I can find and burning them is immature and beneath me or whether I should let Pryderi pee all over them first.

Phone-banking against it would probably be more useful, and I'll more than likely start doing so later this week. I hate politics, I loathe initiating conversation with strangers. I have a serious telephone aversion. I'm going to do it anyhow. Someone ought to suffer for this.

While we're on politics, I just watched a bit of last night's debate (yawn) and was very impressed...in the most unfavorable possible way...by his scowling and grimacing-faces during Obama's speechifying. To say nothing of his even worse behavior previously. starchy Does a better job than I would of explaining why I'm pissed on a level that goes beyond my personal liberal politics about what's passing for a conservative worthy of respect these days, and why I think you all should be too. When a serious candidate for office behaves like a surly and ill behaved fifth grader, I become concerned. Anger tends to find its source in fear or pain, after all.


* My personal stance on marriage, that it's a kind of distasteful and outmoded legal/social concept, hasn't changed. The probability of me ever ending up in a legal marriage is incredibly slim. Who knows, though, maybe if the right girl was wanting it. Why I care about this issue nonetheless ought to be pretty obvious).

Comments

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

You do know who is bankrolling Yes on 8, don't you? It's the Mormon Church. They more or less have helicoptered in 10s of millions of dollars from Utah to try and kill same-sex marriage in California. This is a test bed for them: if they can kill it in California, they can kill it ANYWHERE.

And most disturbingly, a whole bunch of very wealthy gay and lesbian people know about this power play, and have not stepped up to the plate with counterdonations. THAT may be what your phone banking could go to good use in. Convincing rich gays and lesbians to fund No on 8, and I'm sure there are organizations that are doing just that.