California’s social conservatives are out for Barack Obama‘s blood. The Democratic presidential hopeful made headlines earlier this week by coming out against an amendment banning gay marriage in the Golden State. And, of course, the right wing’s making his homo support into a big stink:
According to Randy Thomasson, President of Campaign for Children and Families, a May 21 Los Angeles Times poll shows that 54 percent of California voters support Proposition 8, the California marriage amendment, and only 35 percent oppose it.
“Despite his claims that he believes marriage is only for a man and a woman, Barack Obama is promising to destroy marriage protection in our nation and to oppose protecting marriage licenses for a man and a woman in California,” said Thomasson.
“Most Californians know deep in their hearts that the homosexual ‘marriages’ parading in the streets are not real marriages,” he continued.
Yeah, well, we’ll just have to wait until November to find out, now won’t we? And, also, marriages can’t parade. Those are people. Hard to tell under all that gayness, we know, but trust us…
fredo777
That is a nice photo.
fredo777
Also, it’s funny that Obama is getting shit from the right for not saying he doesn’t support gay marriage, while still getting shit from gays for all but saying he supports gay marriage.
You can’t win everyone over, I reckon.
CHURCHILL-Y
JellObama is all over the place, he say one thing to one group and another thing to the opposing group. It wouldn’t surprise me if news of him approving proposition 8 or similar like laws in other states, would come out of his double talk mouth now that he is doing some more pandering to the Evangelical.
CHURCHILL-Y
“You can’t win everyone over” PLZ..
That’s exactly what his trying to do, be everything to everyone. I reckon Mo(777) is an idiot.
Disgusted american
I am so sick of the Hate in this country…If I could afford too..I’d move the hell out of america…liberty & justice for all….nah,not really! So according to this Jerkoff…LGBT citizens don’t have children or families? Im so fed up…Aaaargh!
fredo777
From the desk of Fredo T., Esquire:
Church, I’m no longer going to waste my energy on negative trolls such as yourself (the likes of which make an otherwise enjoyable blog site downright irritating).
That said, all of your future nonsense will be ignored, whether you mention or address me directly or not. Likewise, other trolls (including the four-letter-word beginning with “R”, of course) are also virtually dead to me. To quote Miss Gwen, “don’t bother”.
Giving you the finger whilst typing this,
– Fredo
P.S. Go directly to hell.
P.P.S. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
CHURCHILL-Y
Hot off the press from the CHURCHILL-Y Times:
It is the most sincere wish of this reader that the ever-festering troll known as Mo(777) keeps his word. And abstains from constantly harassing with snarky and insulting comments those who call on the bullshit hypocrisy of some politicians and people on the pubic eye.
As for this reader he will always comment regardless of the race or social status of the poster or subject on the bias double standards and hypocrisy and sheer vitriol and disdain directed at the GLBT community.
-Churchill-y
P.S. Don’t want to go were you are at.
P.P.S. My offer still stands for a one way ticket $$$$ for you and another Primadona wannabee in your hood.
fredo777
In case anyone was wondering, I read that person’s username + immediately skipped past the remainder of their post. Which I’ll continue to do in the future.
I’d advise others to do the same.
Unfed trolls starve to death.
Word.
RyanInSacto
Fredo, when I saw “four letter word beginning with R” I wondered what I had done to rise (fall?) to the level of troll. Then I remembered the *other* 4 letter word name that shows up on this site. Anyway, I appreciate your new policy and I’m considering the same though I do take pleasure, at times, in pointing out the idiocy of the trolls. However, there’s always that nagging suspicion that trolls don’t actually believe the tripe that they traffic in and are only here because they get some sort of pleasure out of causing a row. Thus, a troll filter may be just what the doctor ordered.
ChristopherM
I’m with you on both racist-ass trolls, Fredo. When one of them all but calls someone a nigger-lover on here, I agree it is high time to start ignoring.
fredo777
Exactly, Ryan (+ Chris). They often are just spouting out incendiary statements to get you riled up. That’s why they’re trolls. Hanging out under a bridge (lurking on a blog/forum) + when you come strolling by (casually type something)…BAM…some a-hole trying to get a toll (attention by way of shock value) from you.
Yeah, it was fun to play along @ times + noone else has to ignore them if they’d rather engage, but I’m beyond over all that negative garbage.
greybat
I guess this is why blogging will always be the second-lowest form of literature (just above the poetry in Hallmark cards). It’s such an impulsive form of communication, forethought and courtesy don’t really seem to come into play much.
Of course, I’m writing this on impulse….
Charles J. Mueller
I hear you loud and clear, Disgusted American.
As we begin celebrating the Fourth of July today with all the flag-waving and patriotic liberty and justice for all hyperbole and rhetoric, this latest piece of news from California makes me wonder if the vast majority of Americans have the slightest idea just what this holiday was meant to signafy.
We live in a land where so much lip-service paid to idea of liberty and justice for all, from sea to shining sea, but where the reality sometimes falls far short, especially as it relates to the LGBT community.
I cannot help but wonder what part of those two words they do not understand?
Hypocrisy really sucks.
Charles J. Mueller
correction: signafy s/b signify
John
America supported apartheid in South Africa. It was one of Saddam Hussein’s top allies. It was (and in the case of last three…still is) bossom buddies with the Argentine Junta, Ferdinand Marcos, Augusto Pinochet, Francisco Franco, Chiang Kai-Shek, Hosni Mubarak, the House of Saud, and Pervez Musharraf. At home, America has treated its minorities horribly. From Jim Crow to the systemic destruction of native Hawaiian culture, we’re hardly the role model for benevolence.
You know what the rest of the world thinks of Washington’s “freedom and justice for all” rethoric? They think it is hilarious.
My friends (to steal a phrase from McSame), it doesn’t get anymore hypocritical than that.
ousslander
God, America is just so horrible. But maybe we’ll get whats coming to us and be destroyed or better yet we shall become the capital of the great caliphate. Thus ensuring Americans will be punished for the arrogance and learn to live in peace and harmony like the rest of mankind.
Becks you all know if the US wasn’t here, the world would be like one big coke or Benton commercial.
RPCV
Church and Fredo777: Church, wear it as a badge of honor. He claims to ignore me, too. The latter is fine with me. He wrote: “Church, I’m no longer going to waste my energy on negative trolls such as yourself (the likes of which make an otherwise enjoyable blog site downright irritating).” I propose we continue unabated and maybe he’ll get so “irritated” he’ll find something else to do with his life than read this site. Many other blogs out there, let’s keep up the pressure and, sooner or later, he’ll move on, or get fired for wasting time at work. Wouldn’t that be par for the course – another black on welfare……….
Beej the Pink Sheep
I continue to support Obama. He does a good job of attempting to reach out to voters in both camps: the Christian and the GLBT. Unlike McCain who’s basically like, “This is how I think, everyone else can suck it.”
Right
“while still getting shit from gays for all but saying he supports gay marriage.”
‘all but’? He doesn’t support gay marriage. He feels marriage is between a man and a woman. He doesn’t fully support gay equality. Why are we still ok with less than full equality? I thought this time we were supposed to want Change from the same old politics as usual.
Why are we so willing to accept less than full equality just because it’s Obama?
Seems like we’re ready for all sorts of change except equality for all.
That doesn’t sound like change to me.
Right
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Mr C
RPCV says: another black on welfare……….
hahahaha. YOU WISH!
Girl you have own issues to deal with so leave us alone. We work just as hard as your _____&^%$* ass does.
Enough said.