Comments on: Prop. 8: Protecting Marriage and Children? My Ass!

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:37:49 +0000

Sounds like a potential new column for your blog …
That which hath been smote. Smoted? Smited? Where’s an English major when I need one? And one other note … one of the joys of being self-employed is that I live vicariously through my clients. After meetings I realize … yes … being the captain of my own domain is soooo much better than office politics! And, much easier on the briefcase – not to mention the wall!

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:44:42 +0000

You have risen above your origins, Kim! Thanks for the laugh. … “Smote,” great word. One of my younger family members once suggested the Grand Canyon was just a few millennia old — the result of God’s having smote the Earth in a rage. Do you suppose this is akin to the day I was so annoyed with my job I came home and threw my briefcase against the wall? Thankfully, it did not leave a big honking ditch.

Love,
K-B

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:30:22 +0000

I think there area a few questions to ask, like …
Has the same sex couple living next door to me for the last few years changed my life when they married last summer? Hmmm … nope. When they adopted children to raise along side the other families in our neighborhood of single family homes, did my property value go down? Hmmm … nope (I believe the banks and sub-primes were behind that). Did all the neighboring children “turn gay”? Nope. Did they corrupt my heterosexual marriage of 35 years? Nope? Did Kenneth Starr’s God reach down from Heaven and smote them? Nope? Did the sky fall? Nope? So what are Mr. Starr and his Ilk so afraid of?

By: Patty Campbell

Patty Campbell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:59:18 +0000

KB,

Good one. I already signed this letter and forwarded to a number of like-minded friends. But when you blame the churches, remember that we Episcopalians have suffered a great deal by standing up for gay rights — and we’re not sorry.

Patty

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:58:30 +0000

Enjoyed your article about prop 8. You would think that all the thumping of bibles would be a war dance to maintain marriage … even between those same sex types. I think that many heterosexuals are really afraid that homosexuals will do a better job at marriage than they have….50% failure rate and such.

I am a little confused…. If one of those same sex types get married and moves nest door to me……just how will that effect my neighborhood? (except for the fact that their house may have a better design colors than mine??) I can’t seem to stay married even without gay marriage.

I think that gay and lesbian folks should have the right to lose half of their stuff, just like the rest of us.

By: Richard Doust

Richard Doust — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:09:33 +0000

Amen K-B.
I have a link to Fidelity’s video on our website. I hope some people are following it. When I signed there were 269 thousand signatures. We’re up to 327,000. I don’t understand for the life of me why that number isn’t 10 times what it is. I really don’t.
Keep it up.
Richard

By: admin

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:42:49 +0000

Hi, Peter,

That’s a lot of fodder there for a lot of things on a Sunday morning — I particularly like the idea of Mary-based laws. …

Love,
K-B

By: Peter Fodor

Peter Fodor — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:09:38 +0000

Perhaps we should make same sex love illegal. That way we could put all those God loving and fearing priests who are in love with a male God into prison…..
That way children would indeed be safer and fear of humans from an almighty God would be considerably reduced. The world would be a happier place for all!
The above would not preclude same sex marriage – after all who besides Sammy Cahn, said that marriage and love have anything to do with each other?
Next we will start basing our laws on Mary and her Little Lamb…..