Comments on: Poll: 8% of Prop 8 Supporters Would Change Their Votes http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/25/poll-8-of-prop-8-supporters-would-change-their-votes/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andy http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/25/poll-8-of-prop-8-supporters-would-change-their-votes/comment-page-1/#comment-629930 Andy Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:28:36 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/25/poll-8-of-prop-8-supporters-would-change-their-votes/#comment-629930 I'm anti-prop 8 (irrelevant since I'm in Texas) but this poll doesn't really mean anything. It doesn't list any margin of error, and it doesn't take into account any people who voted no who would change their votes. Not that there would be a lot, but still, it counts. I’m anti-prop 8 (irrelevant since I’m in Texas) but this poll doesn’t really mean anything. It doesn’t list any margin of error, and it doesn’t take into account any people who voted no who would change their votes. Not that there would be a lot, but still, it counts.

]]> By: rage http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/25/poll-8-of-prop-8-supporters-would-change-their-votes/comment-page-1/#comment-629916 rage Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:48:17 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/25/poll-8-of-prop-8-supporters-would-change-their-votes/#comment-629916 I'll bet more than that would change their votes if folks simply sat down and educated one another. I've got relatives and friends in Cali who voted in favor of Prop 8 out of sheer ignorance of what the passage of this proposition really meant for California. No one explained to the them that this was about way more than ending gay marriage. A great many of my saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled relatives were revved up by the hype perpetuated by the Mormons and Catholics. The rest, who are straight, were just indifferent in the voting booth because they didn't know anything much about Prop 8. They were not informed that ripping the rights and freedoms from gays is where fascists usually start in ripping the rights and freedoms away from every smaller, less powerful faction of society that is not part of the larger majority whose power is only equal to their numbers. They didn't realize until it was too late that the right wing nuts needed their support to sustain the majority rule that kept their will the law of the land, laws that now in no wise reflect their best interest at all. These folks need to know that the laws of this land are not Biblically based, as I've heard way too many televangelists errantly claim. Furthermore, the Ten Commandments are an expanded exegesis of two basic tenets that flow throughout the Bible: Love God above all creation, and Love your neighbor as you love yourself. So, let's start loving one another by first ceasing to criminalize and penalize each other for everything we don't understand about each other. There is a separation of church and state that is still CONSTITUTIONAL, no matter what some of these pastors are telling their congregants. The government can't tell the churches to whom they must offer their sacrements. And, the churches don't get to rewrite our Constitution to withold rights and deprive targeted factions of our population of the liberties and freedoms aforded all men EQUALLY! I’ll bet more than that would change their votes if folks simply sat down and educated one another. I’ve got relatives and friends in Cali who voted in favor of Prop 8 out of sheer ignorance of what the passage of this proposition really meant for California. No one explained to the them that this was about way more than ending gay marriage. A great many of my saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled relatives were revved up by the hype perpetuated by the Mormons and Catholics. The rest, who are straight, were just indifferent in the voting booth because they didn’t know anything much about Prop 8. They were not informed that ripping the rights and freedoms from gays is where fascists usually start in ripping the rights and freedoms away from every smaller, less powerful faction of society that is not part of the larger majority whose power is only equal to their numbers. They didn’t realize until it was too late that the right wing nuts needed their support to sustain the majority rule that kept their will the law of the land, laws that now in no wise reflect their best interest at all.

These folks need to know that the laws of this land are not Biblically based, as I’ve heard way too many televangelists errantly claim. Furthermore, the Ten Commandments are an expanded exegesis of two basic tenets that flow throughout the Bible: Love God above all creation, and Love your neighbor as you love yourself. So, let’s start loving one another by first ceasing to criminalize and penalize each other for everything we don’t understand about each other. There is a separation of church and state that is still CONSTITUTIONAL, no matter what some of these pastors are telling their congregants. The government can’t tell the churches to whom they must offer their sacrements. And, the churches don’t get to rewrite our Constitution to withold rights and deprive targeted factions of our population of the liberties and freedoms aforded all men EQUALLY!

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