From SLOG…

Proposition 8 Protesters Take to the Streets in West Hollywood

posted by David Schmader on November 5 at 7:45 PM

“The crowd just moved onto the intersection , blocking traffic at Santa Monica and San Vicente,” reports Slog Tipper Keith.

As long as nobody gets hurt…good. 

I would suggest two things.  First…document all the support that Proposition 8 got…from its inception to passage.  Everyone who gave it money…everyone who gave it time.  Individuals and businesses.  And put that information online somewhere it can be accessed.  Not to harass anyone, but to boycott the companies that helped cut our ring fingers off, and to know who our friends are, and who they are not.  Trust me…I’ll be keeping up on who supported Proposition 8 in my own state, although I’m glad to say that nearly all the money coming from Maryland was in opposition.

Second: Never Forget.  Never forget our friends.  Never forget our enemies.  Raving homophobes like Dobson and company will naturally take pains to make sure we never forget how much they hate us.  But in the coming weeks and months there will be a ton of poltroons coming forward, like Rod Dreher, whining that they had nothing against us Personally…they just think same-sex marriage is too radical…

Don’t gloat over this. While I would have supported Prop 8 had I been a Californian, because I do not think there exists a right to same-sex marriage and I fear for the religious liberty implications of constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, I recognize that this is a tremendous blow to good men and women who disagree. It seems to me to be unseemly, even cruel, to rub salt in their wounds.

…But by appealing to the courts to impose something as radical as same-sex marriage, something that has never in the history of human society existed, they invited this backlash.

Fuck you Dreher.

Juan and Leroy lived together in Long Beach for eight years. One day, Juan came home from the grocery store and found Leroy, who had fallen off a ladder, lying on the concrete patio. Leroy was rushed to the hospital where he stayed in a coma for several days. Although Leroy regained consciousness, he remained hospitalized for nine months. Juan visited Leroy once or twice each day, feeding him and encouraging him to recuperate.

Leroy’s estranged brother, who lived in Maine, filed a lawsuit seeking to have himself appointed as Leroy’s conservator.

When Juan accidentally found out, he showed up at court in Long Beach. Although Juan, who was not represented by counsel, stood up and protested, the judge refused to consider Juan’s plea because he was a stranger to Leroy in the eyes of the law.

The brother subsequently had Leroy transferred from the hospital to an undisclosed location. When Juan finally discovered that Leroy was being housed in a nursing home about 50 miles from Long Beach, he attempted to visit Leroy there. The staff stopped Juan in the lobby, advising him that the brother had given them a photo of Juan with strict orders not to allow him to visit Leroy. Unfortunately, no one else ever visited Leroy there.

It took Juan about two weeks to find an attorney who would take the case without charge. The attorney filed a lawsuit seeking visitation rights.

A few hours before the hearing was scheduled to occur, the brother’s attorney called Juan’s attorney, informing him that Leroy had died three days before.               

Since the body had already been flown back to Maine where it was cremated, Juan never had an opportunity to pay his last respects.

Fuck you Dreher.

Gregory Anderson and Michael Connolly lived together for nine years. They jointly owned a condominium in New York where the couple lived. Michael was murdered by a stranger when he was visiting Los Angeles. After police investigated the case, a key suspect admitted that he was guilty.

When Gregory heard that the man had been sentenced, he contacted the detective assigned to the case to determine the defendant’s name, the terms of his sentence, or the place of his imprisonment.

The detective refused to disclose this information because Gregory was not a spouse or blood relative of the victim.

Fuck you Dreher. 

Terry Taylor worked for the City of Los Angeles and belonged to the Los Angeles City Employees Federal Credit Union. Taylor was living with her fiancé, Roger Naas. Terry wanted to buy a new car but did not make enough money to qualify for credit on her own. She and Roger therefore sought to apply for a joint loan from the credit union.

They were turned down. Not because of bad credit or lack of joint resources. The loan was rejected solely because the credit union would not give joint loans to unmarried couples.

The problem was that credit unions can only issue loans to members. Members can be city employees or their immediate family members.

Terry and Roger discovered that the board of directors of the credit union had voted to define "immediate family" as being limited to spouses or blood relatives of employees.

Although Terry and Roger never got a loan, the problem was later corrected after it was exposed by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Consumer Task Force on Marital Status Discrimination.

The credit union board finally changed its by-laws to define "family" in a more expansive manner, so that spouses, blood relatives, or other household members such as domestic partners may now join.

Fuck you Dreher. 

Ken Phillips and Gail Randall were looking for an apartment to rent in Chico. They found the perfect place, filled out an application, and handed the landlady a deposit. There was one last minute inquiry: "You are married, aren’t you?" When the landlady found out that Ken and Gail were unmarried partners, she flatly refused to rent to them. Never mind the fact that they had lived together for years, had good jobs, and could give wonderful references from prior landlords.

Ken and Gail fought back. They filed a complaint with the state fair housing agency. The tribunal ruled that the landlady had violated a state law against marital status discrimination in housing.

But the landlady appealed and won the first round in court. The Court of Appeal agreed that discrimination against unmarried couples in housing is illegal. But the court sided with the landlady anyway, on the theory that a business owner with religious objections to unmarried cohabitation does not have to obey the state’s civil rights laws.   

Dreher would say the lady had a right to her religious objection.  And according to him we invited a backlash.  And we invited it, simply for not wanting to live anymore, as second class citizens in our own country.  Yes Dreher, you gutter crawling bigot…it’s our country too.  We live here.  And we’re not asking politely anymore, for your kind to get the fuck off our backs.

So same-sex marriage is Radical is it?  Sure it is.  And here’s why: because homosexuals are perverts.  Seriously.  Homosexuals are disgusting disease spreading, child molesting, sex addicts who can no more know and understand what normal human relationships are then an ape can do calculus.  Homosexuals don’t love, they just have sex.  That’s why same-sex marriage is radical.  To call what homosexuals do marriage, defiles the decent loving relationships of every normal heterosexual couple on earth.  It spits in their faces.  Homosexuals prowl the toilets for sex.  They lurk in bushes and behind schools.  They drink urine and eat shit.  Picture a pair of homosexual sex partners walking down the isle and you have pictured the end of western civilization.  You can’t whitewash perversion by calling it something it isn’t.  Homosexual relationships are no more marriage, then feces is food.  That’s why same-sex marriage is radical, isn’t it Dreher?  But you won’t come out and say so, because you want people to think you’re better then this man…

…and you’re not Dreher.  You’re actually deeper in the human gutter then he is.  Fred’s a bigot like you, but at least he’s an honest one and you can’t even be that.  Afraid for religious liberties are you?  Bullshit you’re afraid.  There’s already a constitutional protection for religious liberty Dreher…it’s called the first amendment you motherfucking bigot.  You know it.  I know you know it.  Everybody knows you know it.  You’re not afraid for your religious liberties.  You’re afraid of the day that gay people don’t have to wear the shame you feel every time you look in a mirror and glimpse the slippery cheat inside.

You don’t want to live with us as your neighbors?   Fine.  We’re not your neighbors.  We’re the people who get up every day and get to work getting you motherfuckers off our backs, and then go to bed that night vowing to work harder at it the next day.  We’re the people who are in your face today, tomorrow, and the day after and the day after that.  And it never stops Dreher…It Never Stops…until your kind are off our backs. 

Welcome to the morning after.  I’ll be your server today.  My name is Fuck You.