I know this isn’t your usual program, but sometimes the lies need responding to as widely as possible – take the NOM (National Organization for Marriage – guess who they are? Yup anti Proposition 8/same sex marriage fundie Xtians) commercial:

Actors who can’t act and a silly ad….yes we’re not in Kansas anymore. Well more like Iowa. Or Vermont even.

And what DOES a Doctor have to do with it? I know here if a doctor tried to not serve someone because they were gay, or same sex married, they’d get struck off. It’s like that old ‘homosexuality promoted in school’ stalking horse – made to scare people about something that likely won’t happen…yes I’m sure they’d have to say ‘men can get married to men / women to women’ if asked; but ‘promotion’ will work as well as teaching maths and english will make your child a genius, ie. not at all.

You know what makes it all ridiculous? Places like here in the UK, Canada and Australia who’ve had same sex marriage or civil partnerships and the ‘godly storm’ hasn’t washed them away. So think about that this Easter (well Eostre; it’s actually Pagan) Sunday.

Oh and back closer to the usual subject of this blog, someone of course has created a NOM mashup:

Well that didn’t last long.

Sorry to poop the party mood but Proposition 2 passed in Florida banning gay marriage and Proposition 8 also doing same in California isn’t looking good.

And sadly this is one of the few issues President Obama is crap on.

Next time can you elect a gay president? Or an atheist for that matter?

Or is that going to take another 200 years as well?

So near yet so far – sigh.

Ok going to try and cool it on that other little voting spree, but you don’t get off lightly.

Read this blog post at Rude Pundit for why exactly opposing gay marriage is just screwed up – especially if you create precedence-making rights-restrictions to do it (can anyone saw straw man? Cue that old ‘they came for the homosexuals and they did nothing..’ spiel)

And it’s not just California; apparently I seem to have missed that Arizona and Florida have got into the act by pre-empting this ever possibly happening on their books. Cos you know, it could, not that anyone has yet. How paranoid (and phobic) is that?

But of course my lifestyle choice is the end of the world, I’m Satan’s sperm, blah blah blah. Whatever. Haven’t you got some ditzy Alaskan pitbull to go worship as a false idol or something? Or even a large cow on Wall Street?

Your back’s against the wall
There’s no-one home to call
You’re forgetting who you are
You can’t stop crying
It’s part not giving in
And part trusting your friends
You do it all again
You don’t stop trying

Standing in the way of control
We live our lives
Because we’re standing in the way of control
We will live our lives

I’ve posted profkampf’s graphic here – and twittered about this – but not really said here how disturbed I am about the division not only in the McCain/Palin camp, but also the dividing lines brought up by Proposition 8. And it deserves saying.

Love knows no gender, race, country or age, so I don’t see how true Xtians could ever ever support this. Stop playing political baseball with mine and other’s lifestyles – you can’t choose who you love. You, or more likely others, can choose to make it easier though, and lose their intolerances and just accept others for who they are.

I said recently about this ‘I’m fed up of being tolerant’ – fed up of being tolerant of idiotic nutters who say I should be dead, go to hell, or live my life – then turn around and expect me to be tolerant of their nutty beliefs. Nope it doesn’t work like that – respect and tolerance are a two way street.

So I hope the citizens of California see sense and get rid of Proposition 8 – I really do.

I found this ironic:

“If you change the definition and have no moral standard, then honestly what is wrong with polygamy?”

Yeah what IS wrong with polygamy, exactly? And polyandry and polyamory…? We have a long way to go, methinks.

I hope Obama gets in, and although he’s not great on the gay marriage question, the whole politics of control and lifestyle interference gets dropped for, you know, the small little things, like the economy, and war. Would be nice.

Why does that affect me? Well it has a knock on effect – we already have civil partnerships here in the UK, it would be nice if the U.S. could honour those, or the U.S. lead the way in showing the supposed freedoms of it’s people, rather than being second fiddle to Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Norway, South Africa, Andorra, Australia (with limits), Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay (and soon to be Hungary too).

And I know people who have got married and I want them to stay that way