Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> OK. How about "no gay people allowed"? :-)
> 
>   Is it really the majority, or only a vocal minority who proclaim that there?

The mayor of San Francisco (notoriously gay-friendly) said he'd allow gay 
marriages. It went to court, got argued a bunch, the mayor got in trouble, 
and the higher courts finally decided it was OK.

Then we passed a law against it, and the legislature said "that law is 
unconstitutional, because we give equal rights to everyone." (At which 
point, a couple thousand gay people got married.)

So the next election they actually managed to force a popular vote that 
amended the constitution. 70% of the people in the state voted to change the 
fundamental constitution of the state to outlaw letting gay people get 
married, when they already had that right. Now they're arguing that the 
change should mean the gay people already married aren't allowed to stay 
married.

So, yeah, it's a pretty much my textbook example of how even "normal" 
reasonable moderate religious people are evil bigoted assholes.

Texas also changed their constitution to say "A marriage is defined as 
between one man and one woman", and then added a clause that said "Nothing 
is allowed to be like marriage" or some such to exclude "civil unions", 
having mis-worded it (should have said "Nothing *else* is allowed to be like 
marriage"), so now there's a big argument in Texas over whether anyone is 
allowed to be married at all. *That* all started when a gay couple that 
*was* married elsewhere and had moved to Texas tried to get divorced.

Altho, honestly, I suspect many or most Americans hate *someone* 
passionately enough to kick them out of the country, whether it be blacks, 
muslims, gays, jews, or whatever.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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