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November 4, 2008
Institutionalized Intolerance
I'm incredibly disappointed in California. Passing Prop 8 is the most intolerant, bigoted, and narrow minded behavior possible. It says it's ok to discriminate against people who are different from you. It says it's ok to impose your morals and values on someone else's life, even when their decisions have no affect on yours.
It's an act of cowardice and fear.
And I'm ashamed of it.
Posted by dberger at November 4, 2008 8:59 PM
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Greetings from California... :-)
Check out this nifty graph from the LA Times. The chart is stunning... I thought that LA, home of Hollywood and critical lifeblood of the local economy, would have supported prop8. That would have made all the difference. But sadly, no part of LA supported it which stuns me.
We *gave* rights to animals (Prop 2) and took away rights from people. I'm really not clear on how that happens...
A lot of other props went weird as well. The clean energy prop that said we needed to get 100% of our energy by 2050 failed by an insane margin because our energy costs would go up by a fraction of a cent. Forget the number of jobs it would have created and the number of California companies that would have made us the hub of Green-Tech and freed us from Texas dicking with our energy.
*sigh*
What short memories we have.
Well, at least the new president was born on Krypton. Or so he says...
Posted by: Steve S. at November 6, 2008 1:01 PM