13 October 08
A Busy Sunday
It is the UC Davis Centennial this year, and a weekend-long series of events and street parties filled the windblown streets of Davis. We worked registering voters until we were told to move on by some officious gal who said Yolo Unite had only paid for one booth. (Registering voters is a civic act and we should have argued with her, but we’ll know next time.)
We took ourselves off to see Religulous which was funny and irreverent and serious, deadly serious in the end. Oddly enough, the Catholics came off as the most rational of the religious groups Bill Maher spoke with.
Barbara now tells me that a priest in Fresno has been fired for opposing Prop. 8, an attempt by the right-wing religious to overturn same-sex marriage laws in California.
Right. That’s it.
Obama will win California, but these guys, funded by the Mormon Church, have given Prop. 8 a serious chance of passing. I’m campaigning, from now until the election, against Prop. 8. Please join me, or please consider donating. This isn’t a religious issue, it’s an issue of human rights. If you’re Mormon or Baptist and Catholic and gay and think it’s a sin to get married, don’t do it. Fine by me. Otherwise, get your religion out of my state and THE state.
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You go, Sister!! Thanks for being such a great ally.
Karen, thanks.
It’s for you and Chris and my sisters-in-law and Ellen and Shelly and Rich and Dave and all of the long-term couples who lived for years to see this day only to have one of them die before they could.
And it’s most certainly for all the clergy I’ve ever known who were gay, whether they acknowledged it or not.
While we’re at it, don’t let’s forget about voting against Prop. 4, yet another iteration of the “parental notification re: abortion” canard.
Here in Australia we are crossing our fingers that your compatriots will make a good decision on November 4th. But your post reminds us that you have a lot of other important decisions as well as choosing between Obama and McCain. Does having all these other ballots affect voter turnout? If the “religious right” got more people to the polling booths to vote against same-sex marriage – would these people be more likely to vote for McCain or Obama? Here in Australia we had a change of government last year and there is evidence that one of the important demographic groups that moved “to the Left” was the church-going population.