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I’m impressed by the argument

6 Nov

Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8, Should It Pass

The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution’s core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group – lesbian and gay Californians. Proposition 8 also improperly attempts to prevent the courts from exercising their essential constitutional role of protecting the equal protection rights of minorities. According to the California Constitution, such radical changes to the organizing principles of state government cannot be made by simple majority vote through the initiative process, but instead must, at a minimum, go through the state legislature first.

I’m afraid to be hopeful, though. Still, it’s an interesting and impressive argument. Click the link above to read the full press release, or see the writ petition here.

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Protected: And the wheel has turned again

6 Nov

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California Prop 8 and bigotry

6 Nov

The very turnout that helped Obama carry California also seems to have helped Prop 8 pass. Polls indicate that African Americans overwhelmingly supported Prop 8. It’s one of life’s true ironies that those who were victims of bigotry would support the same against a different class of people.

Barack Obama may have helped California Proposition 8 gay marriage ban pass
Around 70 per cent of the African-American voters who overwhelmingly backed Mr Obama also approved Proposition 8, helping pass the controversial ballot measure despite a small majority of whites voting against the ban on same-sex unions. Hispanic and Asian voters were split on the issue. […]

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We won!

4 Nov

They’ve called it for Obama, and McCain is making his concession speech right now!

NBC: Obama elected 44th president

Decision ’08 Presidential Results

4 Nov

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This is a real family…

3 Nov

Something for anyone that’s still undecided on CA Prop 8, FL Prop 2, or AZ Prop 102:

My Family Is Real by Les Addison

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Sarah Palin speaks on the First Amendment

1 Nov


Per Glenn Greenwald in Salon:

Somehow, in Sarah Palin’s brain, it’s a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts:

In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by “attacks” from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama’s associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate’s free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

“If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations,” Palin told host Chris Plante, “then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.”

Click through to read Greenwald’s complete analysis of why this hurts, if you enjoy seeing someone take the stupid people to task, and do it very well.

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Protected: Week seven update

1 Nov

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Marriage “protection”

30 Oct

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow. Technically, I am not married, but I’m as close as you can be without that piece of paper.

Copy THIS sentence into your journal if you believe the fucking government should keep its lousy nose out of the estate of “holy Matrimony”, period, and leave it to the religious communities in which it rightfully belongs…

Feel free to take part, or not, as you choose.

via brigidsblest, nolawitch, et. al.

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Sarah Palin’s War on Science

28 Oct

The GOP Ticket’s appalling contempt for knowledge and learning
By Christopher Hitchens

[…] This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

Excellent summary of the very best reason to vote Obama/Biden. Their ideas are not necessarily the best ones out there, but at least they are not proud of their own stupidity.

via sunfell

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