"Even though I don't understand homosexuals"....

Yeah, how come they have a better sense of what the right thing to do, why do they understand that who you sleep with is about THE LEAST important way you can catagorize people?

Why do they just wanted to be treated NOT as special, but just like everbody else?

These homosexuals? I just don't understand them.....

My hope is that Jennifer Kerns, or Jeff Flint, or Frank Schubert might notice this letter from a Mormon father who wrote it because he wants to do right by the son he loves.

And I only mention Jennifer, Jeff and Frank because if they won't notice, at least Google will, and I'm damn close to getting Google to rank my "Schubert Flint" diaries above their own lame website.

Check intrade on Prop 8. It's toast. Got about as much chance as McCain when it comes to winning in California. All I'm doing now is celebrating the humanity of it all.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg i?f=/c/a/2008/07/25/BA5511V2DO.DTL

The fearmongering and fabrications are coming out of the Yes on 8 campaign thick and fast now.

http://laist.com/2008/07/25/gay_marriage _ban_proposition_langua.php

http://boifromtroy.com/?p=7394

Here's what Prop 8 is now going to look like on the ballot:

ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY.
INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact to state and local governments.

http://laist.com/2008/07/23/lapd_cheif_b ratton_donates_money_to.php

Los Angeles' top cop donated money to Equality California ... "The Constitution guarantees life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," Bratton said. "I see no reason why gays can't pursue happiness through marriage."

Josiah Greene over at the California Majority Report calls out the Yes on 8 campaign for their kindergarten lies:

http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.ph p?module=articles&func=display&a id=3275&ptid=9

Proponents of Proposition 8, the mean-spirited attempt to amend our state constitution to ban gay marriage, are falsely claiming that failure to pass the measure would mean kindergarteners would be taught that gay marriage is equivalent to traditional marriage ... We only hope these lies will catch up with them.

Mormons believe in marriage "for all eternity" (LDS Temple marriages are believed to extend beyond death and can involve more than one wife in the hereafter).  

It's this belief that makes this recent letter to the Salt Lake Tribune so friggin' hilarious:  

Celestial polygamy

Marriage for all eternity is being threatened. Many male members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are married to multiple women in heaven. Even today, prominent LDS general authorities are also polygamists in heaven. I believe in the importance of eternal marriage; therefore I would like to propose a "Celestial Marriage Amendment" that would define marriage in heaven as "one man married to one woman." This is a moral issue that certainly threatens to undermine the sanctity of heavenly unions. I encourage all people everywhere to use their time and means to bring this to pass. After all, I'd hate the LDS Church to develop a reputation for hypocrisy.

-- T.W.
Salt Lake City