UTMC

I cannot even begin to enumerate the ways in which this is fucked-up as a football-bat:

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts ... source=rss

The U.S. Supreme Court, sharply divided along its usual conservative-liberal lines, on Wednesday banned the broadcast of the Proposition 8 trial now unfolding in the federal courthouse here, putting a swift end to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's planned experiment to post the proceedings on his court's Web site through YouTube.

Death-squads in third-world countries hide their faces. The KKK hides their faces. THis is complete and utter bullshit. I'm angry. ...give me a few minutes and ask me again and I'll tell you how I *really* feel.

(grumble)

What are they afraid of?

guitargeek wrote:What are they afraid of?

Riots.

I would go to the streets.

I'm gonna broadly generalize here and ask why it is that religious nuts blow up abortion clinics, but you never hear of a secular nut blowing up say, the morman temple?

To me the answer is obvious, but is clearly not set in stone, and while I feel the people in question are cowardly, I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

roadmissile wrote:
...I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

Um, ok, I'll bite.

What scares you about acknowledging the right of homosexuals to enter into a relationship and have it recognized by the state as a "marriage"?

FastCat wrote:

roadmissile wrote:
...I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

Um, ok, I'll bite.

What scares you about acknowledging the right of homosexuals to enter into a relationship and have it recognized by the state as a "marriage"?

He's afraid to come out of the closet... some homo might force him, by gun point, to get married. This, of course, is equally as scary as some chick forcing him into marriage.

I may have read the article wrong, but would this be the first time a California State Supreme Court hearing would be televised?
And did the United States Supreme Court forbid them from airing it?

Rev wrote: Also, it keeps pastel sketch artists in business.

+1

erosvamp wrote:

FastCat wrote:

roadmissile wrote:
...I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

Um, ok, I'll bite.

What scares you about acknowledging the right of homosexuals to enter into a relationship and have it recognized by the state as a "marriage"?

He's afraid to come out of the closet... some homo might force him, by gun point, to get married. This, of course, is equally as scary as some chick forcing him into marriage.

I suspect what roadmissle meant was that he thinks the witnesses are right to be afraid they'd be harassed, not that the witnesses are correct about gay marriage.

smashinator wrote:

erosvamp wrote:

FastCat wrote:

roadmissile wrote:
...I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

Um, ok, I'll bite.

What scares you about acknowledging the right of homosexuals to enter into a relationship and have it recognized by the state as a "marriage"?

He's afraid to come out of the closet... some homo might force him, by gun point, to get married. This, of course, is equally as scary as some chick forcing him into marriage.

I suspect what roadmissle meant was that he thinks the witnesses are right to be afraid they'd be harassed, not that the witnesses are correct about gay marriage.

I'm relieved someone got it.

If I were going to approach it from the perspective of some of the folks in question I might replace 'harassed' with 'stabbed in the face by some queeny hairdresser', but otherwise that's perfect.

I certainly don't agree with banning gay marriage, personally I feel people should have the right to lose half their stuff regardless of sexual orientation.

/RM

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2 ... r-divorce/

Delicious irony, anyone?

pretty good.


it would be better if he was dumping her for a guy.

or she's dumping him for a woman.

roadmissile wrote:['stabbed in the face by some queeny hairdresser'/RM

That's funny. Got the 'ole beer out the nose on that one.

erosvamp wrote:

FastCat wrote:

roadmissile wrote:
...I don't feel their fears are unfounded.

/RM

Um, ok, I'll bite.

What scares you about acknowledging the right of homosexuals to enter into a relationship and have it recognized by the state as a "marriage"?

He's afraid to come out of the closet... some homo might force him, by gun point, to get married. This, of course, is equally as scary as some chick forcing him into marriage.

Actually, several persons who donated money to the prop 8 campaigns have received threats on their person and businesses for making said contributions and frankly our judicial system has never been much for media coverage. Think about it, ever hear of a camera present in chambers or jury deliberations? Logically, that should be fine too. The chilling effect would be disasterous.

problemaddict wrote:PROP 8 IS GAY

That so needs to be a bumper sticker, or a billboard.

I stole it from these guys. But it doesn't look like their store is up anymore. Googling gets you links for shirts and stickers from other places...

problemaddict wrote:PROP 8 IS GAY

fixed

PROP 8 IS GAY!