California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ain’t budging on his stance against gay marriage. The Austrian born politico says he plans to veto the freshly passed Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act.
The Republican governor said he won’t change his position unless voters overturn an anti-gay marriage initiative that Californians adopted in 2000.
“It would be wrong for the people to vote for something and for me to then overturn it,” Schwarzenegger said. “So they can send this bill down as many times as they want, I won’t do it.”
The bill would redefine marriage as a civil contract between two people, but would still let religious groups refuse to sanction the unions.
Schwarzenegger’s taken such a hardline against gay marriage, he still hasn’t met with any gay families. Nice to know the former actor’s still living in La-La Land.
Leland Frances
Well, he is the son of a documented Nazi. He has been caught lying in speeches about his memories of growing up in Austria. He has been caught on tape making racist, sexist remarks. He did hire a leader of the rabidly antigay “Traditional Values Coalition” to wrangle votes from the fascists in California for his reelection campaign only to fire him the moment the media found out about it. And the people who helped bring you George Bush, the Fag Cabin Repugs, luv him. What’s more to say?
Just this—before some other fag Repug repeats the misleading propaganda, “He’s signed more gay-friendly bills than any other governor.” True, but that’s because he’s been presented with more than any governor before him. One he did not sign—for the same reason he vetoed this one—to keep the fascists happy in the other area that enrages them most—was a bill that would have added gays to the list of minorities that CA law requires be discussed in public school textbooks. There’s never been a referendum about that, so the only will of the people he was protecting are those he hopes will help elect him a senator some day, help him change the Constitution so that they can then help him become our first Son of A Nazi President. Fuck him and not in the good way.
ggreen
Citizens of California have the California Democratic Party to thank for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The party big wigs saw an opportunity to line their pockets and get rid of Gov. Gray Davis while installing a lamebrain like Arnold.
Willie Brown Diane Feinstein, Cruz Bustamonte, Fabian Nunez, and Don Perata worked endlessly to knife Phil Angelides in the back and re-elect the Governator again to line their own pockets and those of their corporate lobbyist’s friends. Sacramento is just a sleazier and more corrupt version of Washington DC (if that’s possible). They all work on fear. Fear of no water, fear of global warming, fear of brown people, fear of gays, fear of the Spanish language fear of liberals.
This state has become just like Peyton Place only less classy.
Bill Perdue
Der Gubernator hails from Austria, also home to Der Pope, Ratzinger. Schwarzenegger is a bosom buddy of Jörg Haider, founder of the BZO, the Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, a not so neo-Nazi party in Austria. When visiting Austria he and Hitler (sorry Haider, not that there’s much difference) attend dinners and say nice things about each other.
Der gubernator was elected by the ruling rich to give billions to electric power companies in the wake of the Exxon scandal and promptly did so. He’s opposed to unions and fair treatment for immigrant workers. He proposed several initiatives in 2006 that would have been serious setbacks for labor unions but unions, spearhead by the militant California Nurses Union, rallied the troops and Schwarzenegger and his the initiatives got shot down in flames.
Schwarzenegger, infamous for calling his gay critics ‘girly men’, pretends to be a centrist but he’s often forced to hoist his true colors as a rightist. Der G\gubernator joins a long line of California Republicans who’ve bubbled up from their murky gene pool including Reagan, Hayakawa and Nixon.
In California politics the usual deficiencies shape the Democratic Party’s attempts to oppose him; craven spinelessness, duplicity and a penchant for cosmetic change. Schwarzenegger’s signed the occasional bill relating of our rights if it’s superficial or popular but he vetoes the substantive ones. It’s unlikely the Democrats would have passed the same sex marriage bill if it were going to a Democrat governor; nonetheless, we’ll take our victories where we can.