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      <![CDATA[@Patrick<br />
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You are SO right that if they uphold Prop 8 each of the bundle of rights Kennard spoke so lovingly of will be removed one-by-one.  First they will go after adoption, then employment & housing discrimination and so-on.  I truly hope the justices see how allowing this fundamental right leads to others in the bundle being taken away bit-by-bit until there is nothing left.
        
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      <![CDATA[No, what we need to do is snort tons of crystal , bareback and spread HIV like wildfire now that its a "manageable" disease  and give our very LAST dime to that pig  Madonna right at the time our civil rights are hanging by a thread...<br />
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oh wait... we did that already... <br />
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todays gays are beyond pathetic and exist as a group of permanent adolescents  to be marketed to...  COORS LIGHT PrESENTS!!!! GAY PRIDE 2009!!! The LOGO channel reminds me that soon gays will be just as brainwashed marginalized and dull as our heterosexual counterparts... Politics are for the old and ugly ! ewww !! Madonna YAY!!!<br />
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Milk is rollling over in his grave... and he wasnt a bottom either  ..<br />
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PATHETIC!!
        
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      <![CDATA[Dan, YOU accused Blacks of being instrumental in the passing of Prop 8. And now, with all this evidence to the contrary I have yet to hear a public apology from you. How can you get indignant about the truth until you fix the lie?
        
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      <![CDATA[Finger pointing doesn't get us anywhere. You want to talk about a brain drain? When did Minorities or Women just "expect" people to give them equality during the 60s? We act more like apologists.<br />
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As to the "leaders", we're all suppose to be leaders in getting equality. You want to blame someone, ask what you did? Did you March? Organize? Talk? Or just give money? Ask an elder black male or female that actually lived during those times and see if they just gave money.
        
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      <![CDATA[This and the importance of being GGG in the sack are the only two areas where Dan & I agree 100%.  And, for the most part, the gay community STILL hasn't confronted the inept losers who ran the No on 8 campaign, and held their feet to the fire.  What the fuck is up with that?
        
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      <![CDATA[[REWIND] First there were the dumb blacks and the dumb rednecks, then there were the dumb queens that voted for McCain/Palin, and now just plain 'ol dumb queens.
        
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      <![CDATA[First there were the dumb blacks and the dumb rednecks first, then there were the dumb queens that voted for McCain/Palin, and now just plain 'ol dumb queens.
        
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      <![CDATA[@49<br />
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Pay attention, Bill!<br />
This is serious.<br />
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And leave Dan alone.<br />
His rectum was going to leak anyway so so what if he's blown it out with anal sex.<br />
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The problem is that brilliant homosexuals' brains are starting to drain out through their leaky rectums.<br />
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It is glaringly obvious that today's homosexuals are just an intellectual shadow of Gays from the 70s and 80s.<br />
Proof is in the fact that they are working so hard to get Gay Marriage legalized. Obviously they never polled already married men about this.<br />
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 And of course if you hire heteros to run your campaign you'll get a shitty half-ass product. It isn't on purpose- it's just that the heteros have already been married and can't muster any creative genius to sell the concept.
        
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      <![CDATA[Are there enough gays and allies to demand equality?  There ought to be...but are they willing to do it even if it makes enemies out of some of their supposed friends in the Democratic Party?  Even if there is a risk of that happening??  <br />
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Probably not.  <br />
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This post is proof of that phenomenon.  The Party is always willing to risk the wrath of the gays (because it never gets any).  Even when they tip their hand - like Obama did in his letter to Alice - the gays are too obedient to take advantage and use it to help themselves.  <br />
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The gays are trained really well...aren't they, Dan?  Didn't you read this in July<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/politics/03gay.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/pol&hellip;</a><br />
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or this<br />
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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/07/02/MN8J11I731.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg&hellip;</a><br />
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Why didn't you make a bigger deal of this back then?  <br />
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      <![CDATA[Part of the challenge is what ERW and other LGBT groups are doing: being soft hearted, gentle, kind, sweet, let's all hold hands and be friends, can we talk about this like adults?, etc etc etc.  Of course there might be something to be said for that if it worked.  The problem is NOW TODAY in 2009 it does not work.  The Radical Religious Extremists (not just radical right, they ARE RELIGIOUS Extremists) are hard at work being mean, harsh, telling lies, pushing minorities around, and winning political battles to strip and deny Gay Americans of Civil Rights.<br />
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At some point "asking" for equality will not work, I think we have passed that point.  HOWEVER, are there enough Gay Americans and concerned allies to "Demand" Civil Rights and equality?  There in is the mystery.
        
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So, you're saying the mother does not get fucked in the ass? Or just that she doesn't have a good time when she is fucked in the ass?
        
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      <![CDATA[thank you barack obama for pulling all the black separatist homophobes in the tent.
        
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      <![CDATA[46 maybe you should go to school
        
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Damn, I knew it!<br />
Stabbed in the back by dirty breeders!!
        
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      <![CDATA[I was at the town hall meeting where campaign manager Steve Sullivan admitted that they decided not to use Obama's endorsement. Steve is a straight dude, not a gay second-stringer, so Dan's theory about brain drain may not apply here.<br />
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In fact, the campaign was only able to undo some of the damage that Steve had done for the first few months of the campaign after they gave the gay consultants a little more authority, around early October. It seems to me that something different from gay brain drain happened: the best and brightest gays were hard at work on the campaign; but the straight leadership didn't want their help.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[stupid xtian that sucks cocks and votes for democrats]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[and divorcing someone of the opposite sex (not gender, idiot there is a difference) is the perfect description of civil rights.
        
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I disagree.<br />
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Marrying someone of your own gender is not a 'civil right'.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey 33/37:<br />
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Marriage is a civil right.  We all agree on that part, or at least the Supreme Court did.  You say that the court didn't guarantee that marrying who you love is a civil right, and that's correct, but that's not what we're arguing.  We're arguing that there's no compelling reason to restrict marriage on the basis of gender, and the reasons that have been provided are unfair and (in some cases, like CA) illegal.
        
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Why didn't your mother abort you when she had the chance?  Did you dodge the coat hanger before she could evade a lifetime of misery listening to your stridently idiotic drivel?  Let's be real coy and quick.<br />
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That just assumes the truth of the premise that it's not a civil right because...and here it is...because it's not a civil right, ya fuckin' moron! *jazz hands*  That's some argument.  Same sex marriage is not a civil right because it's not a civil right.  So the fantasy that it is not a civil right is caused by itself!  Jesus thinking...self caused unmoved movers... <br />
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Then idiots like you go off about it being a privilege because you have to meet certain criteria, whereas you don't have to meet any criteria for something to be a right like, say, the option of owning a firearm or being born in a country which acknowledges your right to free speech as a citizen of said country (also a privilege, and not a right according to this reasoning unless people choose to be born male or female) and yet, legal minors who can't access their RIGHTS yet because they don't meet certain criteria reduces said rights to privileges (daaaaaaaaaaaa)...and a criterion is, according to you douchey schmuck bastards, being male and female...once again, begging the question!<br />
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As to the GUVMENT not being able to make sure people have the option of marriage, and the rights and responsibilities that accompany said right, apparently you don't know what a marriage license is or that states issue them.<br />
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Even if it were a privilege (which there's no non-arbitrary way of distinguishing from a right that doesn't beg the very question by assuming the truth of the distinction), why should that privilege only be extended to opposite sex couples and not same sex couples?  Why should religions be protected from workplace discrimination when gays aren't?  Seems like you folks do advocate special rights and special treatment, but only for yourselves.  That seems to reenforce extra special treatment and consideration to opposite sex couples for no other reason than discrimination. You idiots cheapen the discourse.
        
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      <![CDATA[@30: The oral argument is just a formality. The case is won or lost on the arguments in the briefs. Don't worry about the tone taken by the judges during questioning; odds are they have already made up their minds. Consider further that they might have seemed harsh merely because they wished to appear impartial.
        
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      <![CDATA[@36<br />
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fartiepie,<br />
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perhaps I can be of assistance:<br />
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Marrying someone of your own gender is not a 'civil right'.<br />
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No one is, or can be, promised by the government that they can marry the person they 'love'.<br />
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(I have read this several other places on slog. It must be true.)
        
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      <![CDATA[@33 You keep posting this same verbage as though repeating would make it true.<br />
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What evidence can you use to support your assertion?
        
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      <![CDATA[@5<br />
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just kiddin, Dan
        
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