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Hoppin' Mad
ednbarby:
So I come home from work last night, hit the play button on my answering machine, and the first thing I hear is this automated crap asking me to add my name to the petition to ban gay marriage in the state of Florida by pressing '1' or to press '2' if I "don't wish to participate." Well, they nailed that one right there.
I pity the poor fool who tries to ask me to do that to my face in the Publix parking lot (people have been known to push such petitions there before, but always in the past, it was stuff that was actually defensible, like raising the minimum wage or decreasing the maximum class sizes in elementary schools). I doubt if anyone would have the nerve in this case. Nor is it even about that - it's just the Republicans playing their little power games again.
Still, it breaks my heart to think that my son will grow up in a state and a country that is becoming so consumed by fear and hate.
David:
UGH! My two worst pet peeves!
#1, Recorded people talking to my answering maching. Machines talking to machines! What has the world come to?
#2, Other people worrying about Gays getting married. As if two guys getting married threatens their own marriage somehow. With more than half of all heterosexual marriages ending in divorce, should these same people worry about their own marriage first?
Here is a statistic I just read. Two guys in a "Civil Union" who earn a combined $130,000 a year will pay $100,000 more in taxes over 10 years than a Heterosexual "Married" couple who earn the same combined salary. Yeah, that's fair.
ednbarby:
Yeah. And here I thought living in America (at least since the 50s) was supposed to be about everyone having equal rights under the law - not about denying some of those rights to some people because they're a little "different" and they scare us.
Front-Ranger:
I heard that Massachusetts will allow same-sex marriages to go forward if there is not a ban on them in the couple's home state. So that's why all these state initiatives. Plus the total failure of the Constitutional Amendment bill. You see all these garbage initiatives (flag burning, gay bashing) when an Administration has reached rock bottom. We should not allow ourselves or others to be distracted from what's really happening by these ludicrous straw-graspinations!!
dmmb_Mandy:
Wow! I've never heard of that before; petitions over an answering machine like that. Press 1 to ban gay marriage!?! It's as easy as that, huh? That angers me to no end! I wish pressing 3 told them to go f*ck themselves.
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