It’s a gay day in sunny California, where Senators have voted along party lines to pass the Mark Leno-backed Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act.
This act removes gender from the state’s marriage laws and replaces them with the neutered “a legal contract between two persons”.
The act, which passed the House back in June, will now go to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who’s expected to veto the measure as he did back in 2005.
Bill Perdue
Der Gubernator hails from Austria, also the vaterland of 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) go on photo ops, attend dinners, and pat each other on the back.
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 treating immigrant workers fairly. He proposed several initiatives in 2006 that would have been serious setbacks, but labor unions, spearhead by the militant California Nurses Union, rallied the troops and shot them down with overwhelming no votes.
Schwarzenegger, infamous for calling his gay critics ‘girly men’, pretends to be a centrist but he’s regularly forced to hoist his true colors and dance to the right. 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.
Der gubernator joins a long line of Republican whack jobs elected in California, including senile Reagan and thug Nixon. Something in the water? In California, the usual problems shape the Democratic Party’s attempts to oppose him; spinelessness, duplicity, and a penchant for cosmetic change. He’s signed some bills relating of our rights if they’re feel-good or superficial measures.
littlemonster
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,
If you really want to help move the Republican party to the left as you say and distance yourself from the religious right and the Bush Administration, you will not veto the Gay Marriage Bill.
It’s embarrassing to have this have to happen twice in a state that is known to be progressive get behind a state like Iowa where there are now legally married gay couples. The people have spoken. The government has spoken. The courts have spoken. It’s time for you to take the right action.
I am gay and have some very Republican views on certain issues (financial, business) and if you want any support from any of the GLBT population with similar views you will need to think twice before another veto.
Sincerely,
Jay Larson
San Francisco, CA
(formally from a farm boy from Iowa)