The Comedown Always Hurts
Nov. 5th, 2008 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianOkay, Gobama, yeah, yeah. Except.
WTF, California?!?!?*
I live in a country where one can be accosted in a pub toilet by a drunken BNP reject and lambasted about not wanting "some fucking coon" in the White House, and we allow same-sex marriages. So did you, not so long ago. Were heterosexual marriages damaged in any way? Did anything about your life change all that much just because two people of the same gender who love each other decided they wanted to make a lifelong commitment to each other? Really? Seriously? Because I don't fucking well see how. And yet you voted to make the lives of people who have done nothing wrong just a little bit harder.
Congratu-fucking-lations. You're arsehats.
Here's a news flash, people. IT CANNOT HURT YOU JUST BY EXISTING! Fine, you have morals and you are welcome to them, but foisting them on other people just because you feel that it's OMGTEHAWFUL is NOT ON. It is not your job to dictate who people can love, who they can have sex with and who they can marry. No, it isn't, fuck off! It does no harm to you! It does not threaten your marriage, or the marriage of any heterosexual couple that wants to go that way! Same-sex marriage is not a threat! And you can't force people to 'go straight' just by restricting their rights to be a couple in the eyes of the law! Gods, when the UK allowed gay marriage, there was a news blurb about a male-male couple that stayed together when the very act of being with another man was illegal; do you think you're going to stop people from being with the one they love just by passing a couple of bigoted laws on the matter? Dream. The fuck. On.
And so what does this achieve? It just makes life harder for decent people who aren't hurting anyone? Why does an idea offend people so much that they feel they have to prevent it? I'm so fed up with this concept of, "If I don't like it, it has to not exist". If there's a concept of law that isn't hurting you or anyone else ... fucking well ignore it!!! You won't even know it's there, you know!
Thanks, California, for renewing my faith in humanity only to shatter it into a million jagged pieces in the span of a single day.
* - by California, I do not mean![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beepbeep, happypickle, nightskywarlock, msgeek, dburr, mer_moon or any of the other sane people I know there. I mean the rest of you. The ones who voted for STUPID.
WTF, California?!?!?*
I live in a country where one can be accosted in a pub toilet by a drunken BNP reject and lambasted about not wanting "some fucking coon" in the White House, and we allow same-sex marriages. So did you, not so long ago. Were heterosexual marriages damaged in any way? Did anything about your life change all that much just because two people of the same gender who love each other decided they wanted to make a lifelong commitment to each other? Really? Seriously? Because I don't fucking well see how. And yet you voted to make the lives of people who have done nothing wrong just a little bit harder.
Congratu-fucking-lations. You're arsehats.
Here's a news flash, people. IT CANNOT HURT YOU JUST BY EXISTING! Fine, you have morals and you are welcome to them, but foisting them on other people just because you feel that it's OMGTEHAWFUL is NOT ON. It is not your job to dictate who people can love, who they can have sex with and who they can marry. No, it isn't, fuck off! It does no harm to you! It does not threaten your marriage, or the marriage of any heterosexual couple that wants to go that way! Same-sex marriage is not a threat! And you can't force people to 'go straight' just by restricting their rights to be a couple in the eyes of the law! Gods, when the UK allowed gay marriage, there was a news blurb about a male-male couple that stayed together when the very act of being with another man was illegal; do you think you're going to stop people from being with the one they love just by passing a couple of bigoted laws on the matter? Dream. The fuck. On.
And so what does this achieve? It just makes life harder for decent people who aren't hurting anyone? Why does an idea offend people so much that they feel they have to prevent it? I'm so fed up with this concept of, "If I don't like it, it has to not exist". If there's a concept of law that isn't hurting you or anyone else ... fucking well ignore it!!! You won't even know it's there, you know!
Thanks, California, for renewing my faith in humanity only to shatter it into a million jagged pieces in the span of a single day.
* - by California, I do not mean
beepbeep, happypickle, nightskywarlock, msgeek, dburr, mer_moon or any of the other sane people I know there. I mean the rest of you. The ones who voted for STUPID.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-11-05 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 05:54 pm (UTC)But most of Cali is actually as rural as the midwest, you just never see it.
My friends in Cali are saying there are a ton of absentee and provisional ballots still to count--like 3 million.
So I'm still hopeful.
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Date: 2008-11-05 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 04:53 pm (UTC)http://ilyena-sylph.livejournal.com/321048.html#cutid1 here, national results by county, explanation of colors at the top of the post.
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Date: 2008-11-05 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 05:20 am (UTC)I'm just so angry about it right now I can't even think straight.
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 04:50 pm (UTC)Found a post that does a really good, rational job of explaining what some of the issues are underlying this debacle.
http://penknife.livejournal.com/374549.html?style=mine