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starboardlight:
it's a mid-term election strategy. get the petition so that the issue goes on the ballot, which then will get more of right wing crazies to come to the polls and while they're voting to ban gay marriage, they'll be voting for which ever Republican candidate is up for election. I've said it in another tread, and I'll say it again. My rights is being used as a chess piece for these political games. These people don't really believe they can get the ban passed. They just want to get enough signatures on their petition to make it an issue during the elections. A small distraction from the fact that Republicans are losing ground because of Iraq and they know it.
Being that as it may, these people are getting really bold. My brother works for a landscape architecture firm in Woodland Hills, and one of these people called their office. It's work place for goodness sakes. Totally inappropriate.
JennyC:
--- Quote from: dmmb_Mandy on July 01, 2006, 12:38:21 pm ---That angers me to no end! I wish pressing 3 told them to go f*ck themselves.
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Mandy,
Bluntly put, but how appropriate. >:( Someone should hack into their system to add the option 3.
--- Quote from: starboardlight on July 01, 2006, 12:53:41 pm ---it's a mid-term election strategy. get the petition so that the issue goes on the ballot, which then will get more of right wing crazies to come to the polls and while they're voting to ban gay marriage, they'll be voting for which ever Republican candidate is up for election. I've said it in another tread, and I'll say it again. My rights is being used as a chess piece for these political games. These people don't really believe they can get the ban passed. They just want to get enough signatures on their petition to make it an issue during the elections. A small distraction from the fact that Republicans are losing ground because of Iraq and they know it.
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Nipith
You are right about getting the issue on the ballot to draw more right wingers to vote. That's what happened in Ohio in 2004. Republican really mobilized their based. They did a very good job to organize the voters to come out to vote according to my democratic friend who volunteered for the democratic voters' drive. The sad thing is the initiative probably will not get passed in CA, but may have a chance in other states like FL.
I have to say that to my surprise (thought I should not really be that surprised after 8 some years here), US is a quite conservative country. The majorities in the country are more conservative than I thought. The blue states are just some isolated islands in the red sea. What particularly puzzles me is why those southern states always go red in the recent years. It seems the poorer the states is, the redder they get.
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Midnight24:
--- Quote from: dmmb_Mandy on July 01, 2006, 12:38:21 pm ---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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You took the words right out of my mouth. It's so disrespectful how someone can put that on an answering machine!! It's like they haven't a care in the world if the person they are calling are gay or not! They shouldn't even being doing this in the first place!!! It's so stupid and aggrovating and...arrghh. Ok, I'm sorry, just ranting, but it's pitiful and stupid to me. And I agree, they need a button to be told to go f*ck themselves!!!
David In Indy:
I'm going to keep my mouth shut with this one. :-X
I think it is pretty obvious how I feel about it. I'm a gay man living in the midwest.
I will say this: our country certainly has a way to go before it can truly call itself "The Land of the Free" and proudly and honestly proclaim things like "With Liberty and Justice For All".
I'll stop now. If I continue, I'll probably start cussing. >:(
And they had the nerve to do this over an answering machine? Oh God. :(
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: dmmb_Mandy on July 01, 2006, 12:38:21 pm ---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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I love where your head's at, Mandy.. :-*
Can you imagine something this ridiculous????
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