Obama Announces Full Support for Gay Marriage

[Rick in Kansas]

WasteWater wrote:

Hey the goofy straw polls associated with Topix had Meg Whitman winning by a landslide too. Obama will win and the corporate media will look all the more stupid and irrelevant along with the bull shit polls.

Topix polls are pretty useless in telling anyone anything about anything other than how f'd in the head that some of this site's users are. The state by state polls do show a little slippage, he's gone from solidly leading to barely leading in a few states, but he doesn't even need all of those to win. Romney needs not only the ones where the ones he's barely leading, but all the ones where Obama's barely leading and one or two where the Obamanator has probably already won to win. Mittens is toasted.

The "Vote No, don't legalize discrimination" signs came in today and are going up around town, they're getting at least a one day jump on the repealers. Saw at least half a dozen, that I wasn't to blame for and I really didn't get very far around town today. Hopeful, but there's been no published polling yet.

[Pietro Armando]

"No, don't legalize discrimination" signs?

[snyper]

cpeter1313 wrote:

I have two cats; both were rescues from straight people who treated them horribly. We do tend to rescue pets you people mistreat, just like we often adopt the kids you people throw away.
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Too RIGHT !

[Rick in Kansas]

Pietro Armando wrote:

"No, don't legalize discrimination" signs?

Salina's (the community where I am posting from) city commission, recently added sexual orientation and gender identity to the city's human rights ordinance, joining race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, veteran's status and familial status. This of course did not please certain elements in our community, who have now forced a yes or no vote on its repeal. Hence, "Vote No, don't legalize discrimination" on the yard signs.

[WasteWater]

Aquarius-WY wrote:

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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
Joseph Stalin

YAWN

Who the hell cares what Stalin had to say?

[WasteWater]

luv Sarah Palin wrote:

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Lol what world do you live in?
Romney has had a major bounce and this came from your leftist CNN.
Let me add to that, Republicans we are going to vote , are your dem "My babies mama" bunch going to vote?
Lol please.

CNN is leftist?

You must be kidding me.

[dances with weebles]

LuLu Ford wrote:

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Sure Q was entertaining, but don't you agree that the characters on all those shows represented various entities. For example, Klingons seem to be bikers on steroids. Q seems to be some kind of higher being character gone bad. ferengi represent capitalists. Romuluns are like the Roman empire. The Borg are like communists taken to an extreme.
Ideas?

q was a god figure. all knowing, all seeing, and all powerful. he was capable of changing both time and space.

[snyper]

What we are REALLY fighting to prevent ...

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162570987/germa...

[Rick in Kansas]

snyper wrote:

What we are REALLY fighting to prevent ...
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162570987/germa...

The bizarre marriage of Religion and State that goes on in Germany; where if they play their legal corporate statuses right, they get the state to fleece their respective flocks for them? Or the Catholic Church hierarchy self-immolating, by screaming like money grubbing wh*res demanding payment for their tricks from those faithful who aren't as faithful with their required taxes?

[Aquarius-WY]

Pietro Armando wrote:

"No, don't legalize discrimination" signs?

Racial discrimination is already legalized. They call it Affirmative Action.

[Pietro Armando]

Rick in Kansas wrote:

<quoted text>The bizarre marriage of Religion and State that goes on in Germany; where if they play their legal corporate statuses right, they get the state to fleece their respective flocks for them? Or the Catholic Church hierarchy self-immolating, by screaming like money grubbing wh*res demanding payment for their tricks from those faithful who aren't as faithful with their required taxes?

I noticed no mention was made of how much the other two faiths, Protestantism, and Judaism, receive, and how that plays out among their hierarchy.

[Pietro Armando]

Rick in Kansas wrote:

<quoted text>Salina's (the community where I am posting from) city commission, recently added sexual orientation and gender identity to the city's human rights ordinance, joining race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, veteran's status and familial status. This of course did not please certain elements in our community, who have now forced a yes or no vote on its repeal. Hence, "Vote No, don't legalize discrimination" on the yard signs.

What about age, weight, or economic status?

[Rick in Kansas]

Pietro Armando wrote:

What about age, weight, or economic status?

I knew I was forgetting at least one. Here's the complete list:

"The Salina Human Relations Commission is a civil rights enforcement agency. It investigates complaints from persons alleging they have been discriminated against in employment, housing, or public accommodations because of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, age (40-70), ancestry, or disability, in addition to familial status in housing."

http://www.salina-ks.gov/content/126/244/defa...

No substantial protections on the basis of economic status and I imagine if your weight has become disabling, you might have a reasoned argument.

As far as I know, there are relatively few complaints filed each year on any basis and are usually settled through mediation. None of these other "suspect classifications" have ever been subjected to a public vote as to their approval.

[Rick in Kansas]

Pietro Armando wrote:

I noticed no mention was made of how much the other two faiths, Protestantism, and Judaism, receive, and how that plays out among their hierarchy.

I hadn't heard of this state sanctioned and regulated fleecing of a religion's faithful, until it was mentioned in the article. From what I read elsewhere, each "religion/sect" gets a cut based on their number of registered adherents within the taxing unit (state by state) after the central government skims "administration expenses" off the top. I haven't seen who ends up with how much other than what the Catholic's share in the extortion is in this article.

[cpeter1313]

In this country, our hatred for taxes would probably result in nobody attending religious services anymore. That might not be a bard thing.

snyper wrote:

What we are REALLY fighting to prevent ...
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162570987/germa...

[WasteWater]

dances with weebles wrote:

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q was a god figure. all knowing, all seeing, and all powerful. he was capable of changing both time and space.

Of course he was. He as an immature God figure.

[Ravianna]

I think people should be disgusted with politicians who use so-called "gay rights" to gain power. Even if the politicians are among the most incompetent, naive, arrogant people in the world a lot of people vote for them because they are for "gay rights" and that should scare people.

[RnL2008]

Ravianna wrote:

I think people should be disgusted with politicians who use so-called "gay rights" to gain power. Even if the politicians are among the most incompetent, naive, arrogant people in the world a lot of people vote for them because they are for "gay rights" and that should scare people.

I think people should be disgusted with politicians who use so-called "Religious rights" to gain power. Even if the politicians are among the most incompetent, naive, arrogant people in the world a lot of people vote for them because they are for "Religious rights" and that should scare people.

See, by changing a word......you can make a case for why we shouldn't allow politicians to pander to any special rights groups or who can donate the right amount of money!!!

[Pietro Armando]

RnL2008 wrote:

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I think people should be disgusted with politicians who use so-called "Religious rights" to gain power. Even if the politicians are among the most incompetent, naive, arrogant people in the world a lot of people vote for them because they are for "Religious rights" and that should scare people.
See, by changing a word......you can make a case for why we shouldn't allow politicians to pander to any special rights groups or who can donate the right amount of money!!!

Rose, the reality is, virtually all of us have some special interest, whether it is based on home ownership, occupation, relationship status, or children, to name a few.

[Quest]

Ravianna wrote:

I think people should be disgusted with politicians who use so-called "gay rights" to gain power. Even if the politicians are among the most incompetent, naive, arrogant people in the world a lot of people vote for them because they are for "gay rights" and that should scare people.

What about politicians that use "anti gay rights", such as Ryan, Romney and others, to gain political power with certain powerful groups?

Do they also scare you?